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This is a companion site to the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group Clinic and Training Center website, dedicated to the writings of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group. For an introduction to Control-Mastery theory, the reader is referred to How Psychotherapy Works: The Concepts of Control-Mastery Theory, by Alan Rappoport, Ph.D. A more detailed explanation may be found in Joe Weiss's last book, "How Psychotherapy Works," and in the latest book on Control-Mastery theory, "Transformative Relationships," edited by George Silberschatz.

Many of the articles in this site were published by professional journals, and as such are copyrighted. Their appearance here is in accord with the longstanding practice followed by journals of allowing authors to distribute their articles privately to interested colleagues, either in terms of mailed printed copies or emailed Adobe Acrobat files. This website is intended to facilitate this accepted practice. Therefore, no commercial use may be made of the articles, nor is mass reproduction of the articles permitted.

Articles List by Author

Anderson and Shilkret, 2004: A New Measure and Conception of Resilience for College Students
Bader, 1996: Altruistic Love in Psychoanalysis: Opportunities and Resistances
Bader, 1995: Authenticity and the Psychology of Choice in the Analyst
Bader, 1994: Helping the Patient Get Better: Psychoanalysis, Optimism, and Social Change
Bader, 1993: The Analyst's Use of Humor
Bailey and Shilkret, 2000: Effects of Divorce, Custody Arrangements, and Guilt on College Adjustment
Berman, 2001: Psychoanalysis and Life
Berry; Worthington, Jr.; Parrott, III; O'Connor; and Wade, 2001: Dispositional Forgivingness: Development and Construct Validity of the Transgression Narrative Test of Forgivingness (TNTF)
Broitman, Dickman, Ornstein, and Gassner, 1990: A Dialogue between Control-Mastery and Self Psychology
Bugas and Silberschatz, 2000: How Patients Coach Their Therapists in Psychotherapy
Bush, 1989: The Role of Unconscious Guilt in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Bush and Gassner, 1988: A Description and Clinical Research Application of the Control-Mastery Theory
Chase, 1998: The Development of Pathogenic Beliefs That Result in Chronic Depressive Disorders: A Control Mastery Formulation
Comello, 2007: Reconceptualizing the Therapeutic Process
Comello, 2005: The Therapist as the Patient's Attachment Figure and Secure Base
Comello, 2005: The Ongoing Hobson, Solms, Domhoff Debate Points Up the Superficiality of Modern Dream Theories: Introduction
Comello, 2004: A New Look at Freud's Botanical Monograph Dream
Comello, 2004: Normal Adult Human Sleep as a Problem-Solving Process
Comello, 2004: Normal Adult Human Sleep as a Problem-Solving Process II: Sleep Cycling Data on Naps and Sleep Stage and Sleep Deprivation
Comello, 2004: The Role of Sleep in Psychological Development: Introduction
Comello, 2003: Control Mastery Therapy as a Secure Attachment Relationship
Creighton, 1990: Revisiting Shame and Guilt Cultures: A Forty-Year Pilgrimage
Curtis and Silberschatz, 1986: Clinical Implications of Research on Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy I. Formulating the Patient's Problems and Goals
Silberschatz and Curtis, 1986: Clinical Implications of Research on Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy II. How the Therapist Helps or Hinders Therapeutic Progress
Curtis, Silberschatz, Sampson, and Weiss, 1994: The Plan Formulation Method
Esherick, O'Connor, Berry, and Weiss, 1999: The Role of Guilt in Obsessions and Compulsions
Foreman, 1996: The Significance of Turning Passive into Active in Control Mastery Theory
Fretter, 1995: A Control-Mastery Case Formulation of a Successful Treatment for Major Depression
Fretter, Bucci, Broitman, Silberschatz, and Curtis, 1994: How the Patient's Plan Relates to the Concept of Transference
Friedman,1985: Survivor Guilt in the Pathogenesis of Anorexia Nervosa
Gassner, 2005: Control-Mastery Theory and Cyclical Psychodynamics: Commentary on the Weiss vs. Wachtel and DeMichele Dialogue
Gassner, 2004: The Role of Traumatic Experience in Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
Gassner, 2001: The Central Role of Pathogenic Expectations and Beliefs in a Case of Intense Genital Damage Anxiety
Gassner and Bush, 1998: Research on Unconscious Mental Functioning in Relationship to the Therapeutic Process
Gassner, Sampson, Weiss, and Brumer, 1982: The Emergence of Warded-Off Contents
Goldberg, 1997: Bruno Bettelheim — Blaming the Victim (book reviews)
Goldberg, Undated: ‘Dr.’ Laura — Is There a Doctor in the House?
Hahn, 2000: Shame: Countertransference Identifications in Individual Therapy
Haydon and Shilkret, 2001: Attachment Style, Emotional Expressiveness, and Guilt among College Women
Horowitz, Sampson, Siegelman, Weiss, and Goodfriend, 1978: Case Study - Cohesive and Dispersal Behaviors: Two Classes of Concomitant Change in Psychotherapy
Horowitz, Sampson, Siegelman, Wolfson, and Weiss, 1975: On the Identification of Warded-Off Mental Contents: An Empirical and Methodological Contribution
Jordan, 2001: A Relational-Cultural Model: Healing through Mutual Empathy
Jorgensen, 2004: Active Ingredients in Individual Psychotherapy: Searching for Common Factors
Kanofsky and Lieb, 2007: Control Mastery Theory and Family Therapy
Migone and Liotti, 1998: Psychoanalysis and Cognitive-evolutionary Psychology: An Attempt at Integration
Meehan, O'Connor, Berry, Weiss, Morrison, and Acampora, 1996: Guilt, Shame, and Depression in Clients in Recovery from Addiction
Messer and Holland, 1998: Therapist Interventions and Patient Progress in Brief Psychodynamic Therapy: Single-Case Design
Mills, 2005: Taking Stock of the Developmental Literature on Shame
Modell, Weiss, and Sampson, 1983: Narcissism, Masochism, and the Sense of Guilt in Relation to the Therapeutic Process
Morray and Shilkret, 2002: ‘Mother, Please! I’d Rather Do It Myself!’ Maternal Intrusiveness, Daughters’ Guilt, and Separation as Related to College Adjustment
O'Connor, 2002: Pathogenic Beliefs and Guilt in Human Evolution: Implications for Psychotherapy
O'Connor, 1996: Altruism as a Fundamental Unconscious Motivation
O'Connor and Berry, 1990: The Drug-of-Choice Phenomenon: Why Addicts Start Using Their Preferred Drug
O'Connor, Berry, Inaba, Weiss, and Morrison, 1994: Shame, Guilt, and Depression in Men and Women in Recovery from Addiction
O'Connor, Berry, Morrison, and Brown, 1995: The Drug-of-Choice Phenomenon: Psychological Differences among Drug Users Who Preferred Different Drugs
O'Connor, Berry, Morrison, and Brown, 1992: Retrospective Reports of Psychiatric Symptoms before, during, and after Drug Use in a Recovering Population
O'Connor, Berry, and Weiss, 1999: Interpersonal Guilt, Shame, and Psychological Problems
O'Connor, Berry, Weiss, Bush, and Sampson,1997: Interpersonal Guilt: The Development of a New Measure
O'Connor, Berry, Weiss, and Gilbert, 2002: Guilt, Fear, Submission, and Empathy in Depression
O'Connor, Berry, Weiss, Schweitzer and Sevier, 2000: Survival Guilt, Submissive Behaviour, and Evolutionary Theory: The Down-side of Winning in Social Comparison
O'Connor, Edelstein, and Berry, 1994: Changes in the Patient's Level of Insight in Brief Psychotherapy: Two Pilot Studies
O'Connor, Esherick, and Vieten, 2002: Drug- and Alcohol-Abusing Women
O'Connor and Weiss, 1993: Individual Psychotherapy for Addicted Clients: An Application of Control Mastery Theory
O'Connor, Weiss, and Sampson, 2000: Let the People Have (Empirically Valid) Therapy
Persons and Silberschatz, 1998: Are Results of Randomized Controlled Trials Useful to Psychotherapitst?
Pole and Bloomberg-Fretter, 2006: Using Control Mastery Therapy to Treat Major Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
NEW!Pole, Ablon, and O'Connor, 2008: Using Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioral, and Control Mastery Prototypes to Predict Change: A New Look at an Old Paradigm for Long-Term Single-Case Research
Pole, Ablon, O’Connor, and Weiss, 2002: Ideal Control Mastery Technique Correlates with Change in a Single Case
Pole and Jones, 1998: The Talking Cure Revisited: Content Analyses of a Two-Year Psychodynamic Therapy
Rappoport, 2005: Co-Narcissism: How We Accommodate to Narcissistic Parents
Rappoport, 2002: How Psychotherapy Works: The Concepts of Control-Mastery Theory
Rappoport, 1997: The Patient's Search for Safety: The Organizing Principle in Psychotherapy
Rappoport, 1996: Freeing Oneself from Pathogenic Adaptations: A Contribution to Control-Mastery Theory
Rappoport, 1996: The Structure of Psychotherapy: Control-Mastery Theory’s Diagnostic Plan Formulation
Rosbrow, 1998: The Importance of Being Open: Treatment of a Case of Shame, Obligation Guilt, and Obsessional Doubt
Rosenberg, Silberschatz, Curtis, Sampson, and Weiss, 1986: A Method for Establishing Reliability of Statements from Psychodynamic Case Formulations
Sampson, 1994: Treatment by Attitudes
Sampson, 1992: A New Psychoanalytic Theory and Its Testing in Research
Sampson, 1992: Reply to Greenberg
Sampson, 1992: The Role of 'Real' Experience in Psychopathology and Treatment
Sampson, 1991: Experience and Insight in the Resolution of Transferences
Sampson, 1990: How the Patient's Sense of Danger and Safety Influence the Analytic Process
Sampson, 1990: The Problem of Adaptation to Reality in Psychoanalytic Theory
Sampson, 1976: A Critique of Certain Traditional Concepts in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Therapy
Sampson, 1966: Psychological Effects of Deprivation of Dreaming Sleep
Sampson, 1965: Deprivation of Dreaming Sleep by Two Methods
Sampson and Weiss, 1986: Testing Hypotheses: The Approach of the Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group
Sampson, Weiss, and Caston, 1976: Research on the Psychoanalytic Process
Sampson, Weiss, Mlodnosky, and Hause, 1972: Defense Analysis and the Emergence of Warded-Off Mental Contents: An Emperical Study
Shilkret, C., 2002: The Role of Unconscious Pathogenic Beliefs: Agoraphobia
Shilkret, 2003: Psychodynamic Studies of College Adjustment
Shilkret and Nigrosh, 1997: Assessing Students' Plans for College
Shilkret, R., and C. Shilkret, 1993: How Does Psychotherapy Work? Findings of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group
Shilkret and Vecchiotti, 1997: Parenting Styles, Guilt, and College Adjustment
Siegel, 2001: Toward an Interpersonal Neurobiology of the Developing Mind: Attachment Relationships, "Mindsight," and Neural Integration
Silberschatz, 2007: Comments on "the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapeutic Personality Change"
Silberschatz and Curtis, 1993: Measuring the Therapist's Impact on the Patient's Therapeutic Progress
Silberschatz, Curtis, Fretter, and Kelly, undated: Testing Hypotheses of Psychotherapeutic Change Processes
Silberschatz, Curtis, Sampson, and Weiss, undated: Chapter 7 - Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center: Research on the Process of Change in Psychotherapy
Silberschatz and Sampson, 1991: Affects in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
Silberschatz, Fretter, and Curtis, 1986: How Do Interpretations Influence the Process of Psychotherapy?
Simone and Shilkret, 2001: Attachment, Guilt, and Symptomatology among Incarcerated Women
Sohn, Jenny, Weiss, O'Connor, Berry, and Meehan, Undated: Changes in the Level of Insight in a Psychoanalysis
Steinberg and Weiss, 1954: The Art of Edvard Munch and Its Function in His Mental Life
Thomas, 2005: Dissociation and Internal Models of Protection: Psychotherapy with Child Abuse Survivors
Troyer, Acampora, O'Connor, and Berry, 1995: The Changing Relationship between Therapeutic Communities and 12-Step Programs: A Survey
Vogel, 1998: The Negative Impact of Survivor Guilt on Marriage
Wallerstein and Sampson, 1971: Issues in Research in the Psychoanalytic Process
Weiss, 2002: Control-Mastery Theory
Weiss, 1998: Bondage Fantasies and Beating Fantasies
Weiss, 1998: Patients' Unconscious Plans for Solving Their Problems, Plus Commentary and Reply
Weiss, 1995: Bernfeld's 'The Facts of Observation in Psychoanalysis': A Response from Psychoanalytic Research
Weiss, 1995: Clinical Applications of Control-Mastery Theory
Weiss, 1995: Lichtenberg's Theory of Therapy
Weiss, 1994: The Analyst's Task: To Help the Patient Carry Out His Plan
Weiss, 1993: Emperical Studies of the Psychoanalytic Process
Weiss, 1992: The Role of Interpretation
Weiss, 1990: The Centrality of Adaptation
Weiss, 1990: The Nature of the Patient's Problems and How in Psychoanalysis the Individual 'Works to Solve Them
Weiss, 1990: Unconscious Mental Functioning
Weiss, 1976: The Theory Which We Are Testing and the Evidence for It
Weiss, 1971: The Emergence of New Themes: A Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Theory of Therapy
Weiss, 1968: Stripping Away and Integration: Two Perspectives on the Therapeutic Process
Weiss, 1967: The Integration of Defences
Weiss, 1966: Clinical and Theoretical Aspects of "As If" Characters
Weiss, 1959: Bowel Obstruction: A Case Presentation
Weiss, 1959: Intensity as a Character Trait
Weiss, 1952: Crying at the Happy Ending
Weiss, 1947: A Psychological Theory of Formal Beauty
Weiss, Undated: Certain Facets of the Therapeutic Pocess
Weiss, Undated: The Patient's Adaptive Uses of the Analyst
Weiss (Jules), 1972: Continuing Research: The Modification of Defenses in Psychoanalysis
Weiss, Rogers, Darwin, and Dutton, 1955: A Study of Girl Sex Victims
Weiss and Sampson, 1982: Psychotherapy Research: Theory and Findings
Weiss, Sampson, and Mt Zion Psychotherapy Research Group, 1986: A Discussion of Joe Weiss's Theory of the Psychoanalytic Process as Presented in The Psychoanalytic Process: Theory, Clinical Observations, and Empirical Research
Weiss, Sampson, Caston, Silberschatz, and Gassner, 1977: Research on the Psychoanalytic Process I and II
Weiss, Sampson, Gassner, and Caston, 1980: Further Research on the Psychoanalytic Process
Worthington, O'Connor, Berry, Sharp, Murray, and Yi, 2005: Compassion and Forgiveness: Implications for Psychotherapy
Zeitlin, 1991: Control-Mastery Theory in Couples Therapy