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Presentations & Lectures

Title
Date
Year
Location
“Therapist Actions Which Address Initially Poor Therapeutic Alliances”
June 19-24
1984
The 15th annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Lake Louis, Alberta, Canada
“Survivor Guilt in Sexually Abused Children”
February 27 - March 2
1986
The California State Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, California
“The Plan Formulation of a Child Psychotherapy Case”
June 21-23
1989
The 20th annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Toronto, Canada
“Adolescent Suicide"
April 20
1989
Teleconference to 40 hospitals in Western United States
“Progressiveness Scale for Children”
June 26-30
1990
The 21st annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Wintergreen, Virginia
“Assessing the Efficacy of Therapist Interventions in Child Psychotherapy”
June 23-27
1992
The 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Berkeley, California
“The Theory, Research Findings and Clinical Application of the Work of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group”
August 25-27
1993
Third Congress of the Swiss Association for Psychology, Zurich, Switzerland
“Child Psychotherapy Research, Development of the Child Therapeutic Alliance Scale”
June 22-25
1993
The 24th annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“The Work of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group”
December 14
1995
George S. Klein Research Forum, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York
“The Use of the Therapeutic Alliance in Child Psychotherapy”
June 25-29
1997
The 28th annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Geilo, Norway
“Play Therapy With Children with Nonverbal Learning Disorders"
April 13
2002
The Sixth Annual Symposium on Nonverbal Learning Disorders, Berkeley, California
“How Psychotherapy Works”
October 3-4
2003
Boston, Massachusetts
“The Scientist in the Crib: The Implications of Alison Gopnik’s Work in Child Development” with Alison Gopnik
November 6
2004
San Francisco, California
“Turning Passive into Active in Control Mastery Theory”, “Treatment of Narcissistic and Borderline Pathology”
September 28 - October 2
2008
Almagro, Spain
“Psychotherapy in the United States”, “Psychotherapy Research of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group”
April 27-30
2009
The International Congress of Psychotherapy, Havana, Cuba
“The Theory of Psychopathology and How Psychotherapy Works, a Dialogue between Control Mastery Theory and Mentalisation”, with Anthony Bateman
November 26
2010
Cape Town, South Africa
“The Curative Element in Psychotherapy: A Dialogue between Attachment Theory and Control Mastery Theory”, with David Wallin
October 27
2012
San Francisco, California
“The Treatment of Anxiety, A Collaboration between Control Mastery Theory and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How Much to Push Your Patient,” with Victoria Beckner
June 7
2014
San Francisco, California
“Pathological Identification, New Directions in Control Mastery Theory,”
July 1
2014
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
“Shame and Guilt: Theory, Research, and Treatment,”
May 21
2016
San Francisco, California
“Compliance and Identification in Control Mastery Theory,”
March 3
2016
29th International Conference on Control Mastery Theory, San Francisco, California
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