Drew Westen
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Bradley B, Westen D, Mercer K, Binder E, Jovanovic T, Crain D, et al.
Dev Psychopathol
. 2013 Jun;
23(2):439-52.
PMID: 23786688
The ability to effectively regulate emotions and a secure attachment style are critical for maintaining mental health across the life span. The experience of childhood maltreatment interferes with normal development...
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Ortigo K, Westen D, DeFife J, Bradley B
J Trauma Stress
. 2013 May;
26(3):361-8.
PMID: 23696470
Research has linked multiple risk and resiliency factors to developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One potentially important construct for understanding connections between trauma and PTSD is attachment. Although relationships between...
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DeFife J, Peart J, Bradley B, Ressler K, Drill R, Westen D
JAMA Psychiatry
. 2013 Feb;
70(2):140-8.
PMID: 23403467
CONTEXT With growing recognition that most forms of psychopathology are best represented as dimensions or spectra, a central question becomes how to implement dimensional diagnosis in a way that is...
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DeFife J, Goldberg M, Westen D
J Pers Disord
. 2013 Feb;
29(2):248-60.
PMID: 23398103
Central to the proposed DSM-5 general definition of personality disorder (PD) are features of self- and interpersonal functioning. The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G) is a...
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Westen D, Malone J, DeFife J
World Psychiatry
. 2012 Oct;
11(3):172-80.
PMID: 23024677
This article describes a system for diagnosing mood disorders that is empirically derived and designed for its clinical utility in everyday practice. A random national sample of psychiatrists and clinical...
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Westen D, Waller N, Shedler J, Blagov P
J Pers Disord
. 2012 Sep;
28(2):281-318.
PMID: 22984863
Researchers have proposed replacing the current system for diagnosing personality disorders with a dimensional trait model. Proposed trait models have been derived primarily from data provided by untrained lay informants...
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Dunlop B, Binder E, Cubells J, Goodman M, Kelley M, Kinkead B, et al.
Trials
. 2012 Jul;
13:106.
PMID: 22776534
Background: Limited controlled data exist to guide treatment choices for clinicians caring for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Although many putative predictors of treatment response have been reported, most...
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Blagov P, Bi W, Shedler J, Westen D
Assessment
. 2012 Feb;
19(3):370-82.
PMID: 22327208
The Shedler-Westen assessment procedure (SWAP) is a personality assessment instrument designed for use by expert clinical assessors. Critics have raised questions about its psychometrics, most notably its validity across observers...
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Westen D
World Psychiatry
. 2012 Feb;
11(1):16-21.
PMID: 22294998
The method of diagnosing patients used since the early 1980s in psychiatry, which involves evaluating each of several hundred symptoms for their presence or absence and then applying idiosyncratic rules...
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Westen D, Shedler J, Bradley B, DeFife J
Am J Psychiatry
. 2011 Dec;
169(3):273-84.
PMID: 22193534
Objective: The authors describe a system for diagnosing personality pathology that is empirically derived, clinically relevant, and practical for day-to-day use. Method: A random national sample of psychiatrists and clinical...