George Silberschatz, PhD
Volunteer Clinical Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Interests

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• Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy Supervision and teaching
• Psychotherapy Research

Publications (29)

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PsychotherapyGuiltPsychopathologyMentoringBorderline Personality DisorderCommunicationPatient PreferencePsychometricsParentingProfessional-Patient RelationsPsychological TheoryHealth Services ResearchPatient SatisfactionSubstance-Related DisordersMental Disorders

• An examination of three methods of psychodynamic formulation based on the same videotaped interview.
  Psychiatry 1989 Perry JC, Luborsky L, Silberschatz G, Popp C
• How do interpretations influence the process of psychotherapy?
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 1986 Silberschatz G, Fretter PB, Curtis JT
• How Patients Guide Therapy: A Pilot Study on the Development and Reliability of the Patient Coaching Rating System.
  American journal of psychotherapy 2025 Li E, McCollum J, Kealy D, Baity MR, Silberschatz G
• The Occurrence of and Distress From Pathogenic Beliefs: Examining Pathways From Childhood Adversity to Psychopathology.
  Clinical psychology & psychotherapy 2025 Silberschatz G, Luo X, McCollum J, Kealy D
• The problematic impressions of therapy scale: a transtheoretical measure of negative patient experience in psychotherapy.
  Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research 2025 McCollum J, Li X, Silberschatz G, Kealy D, Gomez Penedo JM

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• "It felt like I was being tailored to the treatment rather than the treatment being tailored to me": Patient experiences of helpful and unhelpful psychotherapy.
  Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research 2024 Li E, Kealy D, Aafjes-van Doorn K, McCollum J, Curtis JT, Luo X, Silberschatz G
• The Revised Pathogenic Beliefs Scale: A Transtheoretical Measure of Maladaptive Beliefs That Are Associated with Psychological Distress.
  Journal of personality assessment 2024 McCollum J, Razo J, Aafjes-van Doorn K, Silberschatz G
• Measures of trauma exposure and trauma response: A scoping review.
  Journal of clinical psychology 2023 Tolchin G, Aafjes-van Doorn K, Horne S, Baitch R, Silberschatz G
• Interpersonal guilt and the working alliance in psychotherapy: The moderating role of childhood experience.
  Clinical psychology & psychotherapy 2022 Aafjes-van Doorn K, Luo X, Kealy D, McCollum J, Silberschatz G
• Within-patient perceptions of alliance and attunement: Associations with progress in psychotherapy.
  Clinical psychology & psychotherapy 2022 Aafjes-van Doorn K, Bar-Sella A, Zilcha-Mano S, Luo X, Silberschatz G, Kealy D, McCollum J, Snyder J
• The plan formulation method: An empirically validated and clinically useful procedure applied to a clinical case of a patient with a severe personality disorder.
  Journal of clinical psychology 2022 Gazzillo F, Curtis J, Silberschatz G
• Interpersonal and Social Functioning Among Psychotherapy Patients: The Indirect Effect of Childhood Adversity.
  The Journal of nervous and mental disease 2021 Aafjes-van Doorn K, McCollum J, Silberschatz G, Kealy D, Snyder J
• Perceived Adverse Parenting in Childhood and Psychological Distress Among Psychotherapy Patients: The Mediating Role of Pathogenic Beliefs.
  The Journal of nervous and mental disease 2021 Aafjes-van Doorn K, McCollum J, Silberschatz G, Kealy D, Snyder J
• Assessing internalized beliefs: Development of the Pathogenic Belief Scale.
  Development and psychopathology 2021 Aafjes-van Doorn K, McCollum J, Silberschatz G, Snyder J
• Cognitive mediators of the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and adult psychopathology: A systematic review.
  Development and psychopathology 2020 Aafjes-van Doorn K, Kamsteeg C, Silberschatz G
• Plan-compatible termination in psychotherapy: Perspectives from control-mastery theory.
  Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.) 2020 Kealy D, Gazzillo F, Silberschatz G, Curtis JT
• Traumas and Their Consequences According to Control-Mastery Theory.
  Psychodynamic psychiatry 2020 Fimiani R, Gazzillo F, Fiorenza E, Rodomonti M, Silberschatz G
• Preliminary Data about the Validation of a Self-Report for the Assessment of Interpersonal Guilt: The Interpersonal Guilt Rating Scales-15s (IGRS-15s).
  Psychodynamic psychiatry 2018 Gazzillo F, Gorman B, De Luca E, Faccini F, Bush M, Silberschatz G, Dazzi N
• Reliability and Validity of the Interpersonal Guilt Rating Scale-15: A New Clinician-Reporting Tool for Assessing Interpersonal Guilt According to Control-Mastery Theory.
  Psychodynamic psychiatry 2017 Gazzillo F, Gorman B, Bush M, Silberschatz G, Mazza C, Faccini F, Crisafulli V, Alesiani R, De Luca E
• The Patient's Experience of Attunement and Responsiveness Scale.
  Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research 2016 Snyder J, Silberschatz G
• The effect of congruence in patient and therapist alliance on patient's symptomatic levels.
  Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research 2016 Zilcha-Mano S, Snyder J, Silberschatz G
• Improving the yield of psychotherapy research.
  Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research 2015 Silberschatz G
• The Adjective Check List as an outcome measure: assessment of personality change in psychotherapy.
  Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research 2009 Itzhar-Nabarro Z, Silberschatz G, Curtis JT
• What have we learned about how the alliance develops over the course of therapy?
  Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.) 2009 Silberschatz G
• Comments on "The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change.".
  Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.) 2007 Silberschatz G
• A method of choosing CCRT scorers.
  Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research 2004 Luborsky L, Diguer L, Andrusyna T, Friedman S, Tarca C, Popp CA, Ermold J, Silberschatz G
• Measuring the therapist's impact on the patient's therapeutic progress.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 1993 Silberschatz G, Curtis JT
• Conceptualizing adult development.
  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 1988 Settlage CF, Curtis J, Lozoff M, Lozoff M, Silberschatz G, Simburg EJ
• A method for establishing reliability of statements from psychodynamic case formulations.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1986 Rosenberg SE, Silberschatz G, Curtis JT, Sampson H, Weiss J