Mardi Horowitz

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Mardi Horowitz is Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and Director of the Center on Stress and Personality at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. He has written 17 professional books and over 280 scientific articles in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. He has provided forensic consultations in the fields of PTSD, stress, personality, and psychotherapy. In addition, he has provided consultation to the media and governmental agencies on these topics.




TREATMENT OF STRESS RESPONSE SYNDROMES was published by the American Psychiatric Press, Wash. DC, in 2004.


RATING SCALES: Copies of, instructions for, and permission to use the IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE, and the POSITIVE STATES OF MIND SCALE will be found in Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes. People in non-profit research or clinical work have my permission to use this scale. Also the IES can be found by clicking on and then scrolling through the "my works" page of this site.
Formats of Process Notes can be duplicated from the book Horowitz, M. Formulation as A Basis for Planning Psychotherapy Treatments. Clinicians have my permission to do so.
Formats for Role Relationship Model Configurations may be duplicated from these books: Cognitive Psychodynamics, Person Schemas and Maladaptive Interpersonal Patterns, or Formulation as a Basis for Planning Psychotherapy Treatment. Clinicians have my permission to do so.



Selected Works

Professional Book
STRESS RESPONSE SYNDROMES now in its fourth edition
The first edition led to PTSD Diagnosis
Cognitive Psychodynamics: From Conflict to Character
A General Theory With Clinical Examples
Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes
Concise and integrated approach
Formulation as a Basis for Planning Psychotherapy Treatment
How To Understand Cases in a Systematic Way
PERSONALITY STYLES AND BRIEF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Configurational analysis and technique
PSYCHOLOGY
Understanding Psychotherapy Change: A Practical Guide to Configurational Analysis,
A text to help trainees learn how to revise formulations and understand what is happening, what is possible next, in psychotherapy



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