Psychoanalytic Research Consortium, Inc.

The Psychoanalytic Research Consortium (PRC) is a not-for-profit organization of researchers promoting basic psychoanalytic research, primarily through the use of our library of audiotape recorded sessions of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapy. We are primarily interested in exploring the relationships between the processes of psychoanalytic work and the benefit to the patient, particularly long-term benefit. We support a group of research-minded psychoanalysts who have developed ANALYTIC PROCESS SCALES for investigating recorded sessions.

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Full Description of our organization

Officers of the PRC

Letter of Invitation to Colleagues to Participate

Introduction for Colleagues to the Analytic Process Scales (by Sherwood Waldron Jr., Robert D. Scharf, Stephen K. Firestein, Anna Burton & Marianne Goldberger, 1998, unpublished.)

Appendices to Introduction to Colleagues Rating Scales and Reliabilities, and correspondence with Psychotherapy Process Q-Set of EE Jones and colleagues.

Suggestions for Tape Recording with Patients (for those who might consider contributing in this way to the scientific needs of our field)

Model Explanation and Consent Form for Patients

Instructions for segmenting sessions for the APS

PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH

"Psychodynamic Features of a CBT and a Psychodynamic Therapy" Waldron, S. & Helm, F. (2004). Psychodynamic features of two cognitive-behavioural and one psychodynamic treatment compared using the Analytic Process Scales. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis: 12, 346-368.

"Saying the Right Thing" Waldron, S., Scharf, R.D., Crouse, J., Firestein, S.K. Burton, A., & Hurst, D. (2004). Saying the right thing at the right time: a view through the lens of the Analytic Process Scales (APS). Psychoanalytic Quarterly,73: 1079-1125.

"What Happens in a Psychoanalysis" (Waldron, S., Scharf, R.D., Hurst, D, Firestein, S.K. & Burton, A. (2004). What happens in a psychoanalysis: a view through the lens of the Analytic Process Scales (APS). Int. J. Psychoanal., 85: 443-466.

"How Can We Study the Efficacy of Psychoanalysis?" (by Sherwood Waldron Jr. ,1997, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly,66: 283-322.)

"The Columbia Psychoanalytic Process Scales" (by Susan C. Vaughan, M.D., Robert Spitzer, M.D., Mark Davies, M.P.H.3 & Steven Roose, M.D. presented on December 20,1997, Research in Progress Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, Midwinter Meetings, New York.

"Discussion of "The Columbia Psychoanalytic Process Scales" (by Sherwood Waldron Jr., December 20,1997, Research in Progress Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, Midwinter Meetings, New York.

Psychotherapy Process Q-Set (Jones & Windholz) Applied to Mrs. C. (by Enrico Jones & Michael Windholz, 1990, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 38: 985-1016. Full title at head of paper).

Findings from the Menninger study and comments on anxiety and panic disorder (by Sherwood Waldron Jr., 1998, unpublished).

Significance of Childhood Neurosis for Adult Mental Health: A Follow-up Study (by Sherwood Waldron Jr. 1976, The American Journal of Psychiatry, 133:532-538.)

We welcome hearing from anyone interested in our work. E-mail the President: sherwoodwaldron@post.harvard.edu