Psychotherapy Columns
Psychotherapy columns in Journal of Psychiatric Practice (copyright Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.) PDF files of these articles are available on request from Dr. Clemens at naclemens@cs.com. (If identified as a link, they may be downloaded directly.) The articles can be arbitrarily sorted into six categories, though there is inevitably some overlap.
Advocacy with government and professional organization leadership
- Keeping the Psyche in Psychiatry, 7(1):53-54, 2001
- Can We Talk?, 7(5):341-342, 2001
- Depression, Psychotherapy, and Primary Care, 10(2): 127-129, 2004
- The Curse of the Medicare Psychiatric Reduction, 11(3):197-199, 2005
- The Return of the Alienist?, 13(6):399-401, 2007
- Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists: Heritage, not a “Hobby”, 14(3): 170-175, 2008
- Keeping the Psyche in Psychiatry: Eight Years Later, 14(6):389-392, 2008
- The Compleat Psychiatrist, 15(1): 50-51, 2009
- Our Shaken Collective Self-Esteem, 15(4): 311-313, 2009
- Psychotherapy and the Perfect Storm of Change, 15(5):408-414, 2009
- New Parity, Same Old Attitude Towards Psychotherapy? 16(2):115-119, 2010
- Psychotherapy and the New Paradigms for Psychiatry, 18(3):205-207, 2012
Biological Interface
- Neurodynamics: a Practitioner’s View, 8(4):239-241, 2002
- Tomography of the Mind, 9(2): 159-162, 2003
Clinical and Ethical Issues
- The “Cyber-Toothed” Tiger: Dreams in Psychotherapy Today. 13(5):334-335, 2007.
- Lessons from My Aged Patients, 7(3): 214-215, 2001
- As Long As Ye Both Shall Live, 8(2):116-118, 2002
- Subtleties of Self, 8(6):377-379, 2002
- In Sickness and in Health, 9(1):79-81, 2003
- Religious Issues in Psychotherapy, 9(4): 314-315, 2003
- A Psychodynamic Perspective on Anxiety, 9(5): 385-387, 2003
- Parents in Psychotherapy, 10(3): 182-184, 2004
- A Really, Really Long-Term Followup, 10(4): 255-257, 2004
- Flying High: the Myth of Specificity, 11(2):123-125, 2005
- Curb Your Enthusiasm: Psychotherapy of the Bipolar Patient, 11(5):344-346, 2005
- Compulsive Personalities & Bergmann’s Wild Strawberries, 11(6): 402-404, 2005
- Until Death Do Us Part, 12(2):113-115,2006
- Dialogue vs. Decalogue: Psychotherapy and the Ten Commandments, 12(6):397-401, 2006
- When Colleagues Go Astray, 13(1):39-43,2007
- Deconstructing Depression, 13(2):106-108, 2007
- The Long Shadow of the Holocaust, 14(4): 237-240, 2008
- Dependency on the Psychotherapist, 16(1):50-53, 2010
- Patients Who Shock Us, 16(5):340-343, 2010
- Addressing Impairment in a Colleague, 17(1):53-56, 2011 (with Marc Horwitz, MD, and Janet Sharp, LPCC-S)
- Beyond the Chief Complaint, 17(4):285–287, 2011
- A Psychiatrist Retires: An Oxymoron?, 17(5):351-354, 2011
- A Psychiatrist Retires: The Happening, 17(6):425-428, 2011
- A Psychoanalyst Views “Inception”, 19(3):234-237, 2013
- On Letting Go: With Age Comes Renunciation, 20(5):370-372, 2014
- The Role of Psychotherapy in Integrated Care, 20(6):466-469, 2014
- The Spectrum of Psychoanalytic Therapies: For the Person Behind the Diagnosis, 21(6):442-444, 2015
Documentation, Privacy and Confidentiality, Informed Consent
- Documenting Psychotherapy: Getting Hep on HIPAA, 7(2):138-140, 2001
- A Treatment Consent Form, 8(5):311-314, 2002
- HIPAA: A Report from the Front Lines, 9(3): 237-239, 2003
- Documentation: The Doctor’s Dilemma, 10(1): 64-67, 2004
- Putting Your Medical Record on the Line, 12(4);259-262,2006
- Privacy, Consent, and the Electronic Mental Health Record: The Person vs. the System, 18(1):46-50, 2012
- New Medical Psychotherapy CPT Coding: The Tail Wagging the Dog? 19(2):150-151, 2013
Residency and Post-Graduate Training and Career Development
- Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysts in Psychiatric Residency Training, 18(6):438-443, 2012 (with Malkah Notman, MD)
- An Open Letter to Early Career Psychiatrists, 21(3):214-219, 2015
- Video-conferencing Peer Consultation Group for Psychotherapy by ECPs, 21(4):304-305, 2015
Specific Environmental Issues
- Psychotherapy and the Workplace, 7(4):273-275, 2001
- Psychotherapy in a Time of Terror, 7(6):420-421, 2001
- Psychodynamics in the E.R., 8(3):178-180, 2002
Theoretical, Historical, and Reflective Writings
- Evidence-Based Psychotherapy 8(1):51-53, 2002
- Insight, Consciousness, Learning, and Change, 9(6): 462-464, 2003
- Freud at 150: Still Disturbing the Peace,12(3):173-175, 2006
- Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-A Review, 13(4):258-260, 2007
- Inside and Outside: Autumn Reflections, 15(6):467-469, 2009
- Evidence Base for Psychotherapy: Two Perspectives, 16(3):183-186, 2010
- A Psychodynamic Perspective On Elections, 16(6):416-419, 2010
- Music, Psychotherapy, and the Soul: Thoughts on Singing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, 17(3):204-207, 2011
- Sublimation and the Psychodynamics of Birding, 18(4):287-290, 2012
- Current Psychoanalytic Views on the Mental Representation of God, 19(6):495-497, 2013
- The Idol Beneath the Altar, 20(2):138-140, 2014
- What is Psychoanalytic about Medicine, and What is Medical about Psychoanalysis?, 20(3):291–293, 2014
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