Mardi Horowitz, MD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Professor Horowitz is the author of Stress Response Syndromes, now in its fifth edition, and has contributed to the official psychiatric nomenclature. He is an expert on the intersections of traumatic experiences, personality development, and change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He provides consultations, forensic expertise, and psychoanalytic psychotherapies.

Awards

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• Lifetime Achievement Award, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, 2004
• Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, 2003
• Fellow, American College of Psychoanalysts, 1986

Education & Training

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• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1958
• Residency School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco

Websites

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• Clinical Profile at UCSF Medical Center (ucsfhealth.org)
• Profile at UCSF Department of Psychiatry (psych.ucsf.edu)

Publications (44)

Top publication keywords:
Life Change EventsInterpersonal RelationsGriefSocial ValuesDefense MechanismsPsychoanalytic InterpretationAnxiety, SeparationBereavementPersonality DisordersPsychotherapeutic ProcessesProfessional-Patient RelationsPsychoanalysisSelf ConceptPsychotherapyPsychotherapy, Psychodynamic

• Redefining Identity after Trauma or Loss.
  Psychodynamic psychiatry 2018 Horowitz M
• Disturbed personality functioning and psychotherapy technique.
  Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.) 2013 Horowitz M
• Value reprioritization in psychoanalysis.
  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2009 Horowitz MJ
• Prolonged grief disorder: Psychometric validation of criteria proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11.
  PLoS medicine 2009 Prigerson HG, Horowitz MJ, Jacobs SC, Parkes CM, Aslan M, Goodkin K, Raphael B, Marwit SJ, Wortman C, Neimeyer RA, Bonanno GA, Bonanno G, Block SD, Kissane D, Boelen P, Maercker A, Litz BT, Johnson JG…
• Stages of Psychotherapy for Trauma and Stress-related Disorders.
  Journal of psychiatric practice 2022 Horowitz M

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• Formulation as a Basis for Planning Psychotherapy
  Formulation as a Basis for Planning Psychotherapy 2019 Horowitz, MJ
• Emotional Control in Psychotherapy Discourse.
  Psychodynamic psychiatry 2016 Horowitz M
• Adult Personality Growth in Psychotherapy
  Adult Personality Growth in Psychotherapy 2016 Horowitz, MJ
• Explanatory Understanding in a Single Case of Separation Anxiety Syndrome: Commentary on Busch and Milrod.
  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2015 Horowitz MJ
• Clarifying values in psychotherapy.
  Psychodynamic psychiatry 2014 Horowitz MJ
• Grieving: the role of self-reorganization.
  Psychodynamic psychiatry 2014 Horowitz M
• Classification of trauma and stressor-related disorders in DSM-5.
  Depression and anxiety 2011 Friedman MJ, Resick PA, Bryant RA, Strain J, Horowitz M, Spiegel D
• Stress Response Syndromes
  Stress Response Syndromes 2011 Horowitz, MJ
• Change in Psychotherapy: A Unifying Paradigmby The Boston Change Process Study Group . New York , W.W. Norton and Company , 2010 , 256 pp., $35.00. .
  The American journal of psychiatry 2010 Horowitz MJ
• Using media to teach how not to do psychotherapy.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2010 Gabbard G, Horowitz M
• Insight, transference interpretation, and therapeutic change in the dynamic psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2009 Gabbard GO, Horowitz MJ
• Formulating transference in cognitive and dynamic psychotherapies using role relationship models.
  Journal of psychiatric practice 2009 Horowitz MJ, Möller B
• Addressing nicotine dependence in psychodynamic psychotherapy: perspectives from residency training.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2007 Prochaska JJ, Fromont SC, Banys P, Eisendrath SJ, Horowitz MJ, Jacobs MH, Hall SM
• Understanding and ameliorating revenge fantasies in psychotherapy.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2007 Horowitz MJ
• Horowitz's Impact of Event Scale evaluation of 20 years of use.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2003 Sundin EC, Horowitz MJ
• Impact of Event Scale: psychometric properties.
  The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2002 Sundin EC, Horowitz MJ
• Defining character integrity.
  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2002 Horowitz M
• Psychological impact of news of genetic risk for Huntington disease.
  American journal of medical genetics 2001 Horowitz MJ, Field NP, Zanko A, Donnelly EF, Epstein C, Longo F
• Coping with grim news from genetic tests.
  Psychosomatics 2001 Horowitz M, Sundin E, Zanko A, Lauer R
• Emotional control theory and the concept of defense: A teaching document.
  The Journal of psychotherapy practice and research 1999 Horowitz M, Znoj H
• Sequential consequences of therapists' interventions.
  The Journal of psychotherapy practice and research 1999 Milbrath C, Bond M, Cooper S, Znoj HJ, Horowitz MJ, Perry JC
• Additional validation of a scale to assess positive states of mind.
  Psychosomatic medicine 1998 Adler NE, Horowitz M, Garcia A, Moyer A
• Diagnostic criteria for complicated grief disorder.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1997 Horowitz MJ, Siegel B, Holen A, Bonanno GA, Milbrath C, Stinson CH
• Configurational analysis for case formulation.
  Psychiatry 1997 Horowitz MJ
• Psychotherapy for histrionic personality disorder.
  The Journal of psychotherapy practice and research 1997 Horowitz MJ
• Self-regard: a new measure.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1996 Horowitz M, Sonneborn D, Sugahara C, Maercker A
• Signs of defensive control locate conflicted topics in discourse.
  Archives of general psychiatry 1995 Horowitz MJ, Milbrath C, Stinson CH
• Role-relationship models for case formulation.
  Archives of general psychiatry 1995 Horowitz MJ, Eells T, Singer J, Salovey P
• Dysfluency and topic orientation in bereaved individuals: bridging individual and group studies.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 1995 Stinson CH, Milbrath C, Horowitz MJ
• Cyclical patterns of states of mind in psychotherapy.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1994 Horowitz MJ, Milbrath C, Ewert M, Sonneborn D, Stinson C
• Expressive and defensive behavior during discourse on unresolved topics: a single case study of pathological grief.
  Journal of personality 1994 Horowitz MJ, Milbrath C, Jordan DS, Stinson CH, Ewert M, Redington DJ, Fridhandler B, Reidbord SP, Hartley D
• Topics and signs: defensive control of emotional expression.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 1993 Horowitz MJ, Stinson C, Curtis D, Ewert M, Redington D, Singer J, Bucci W, Mergenthaler E, Milbrath C, Hartley D
• Pathological grief: diagnosis and explanation.
  Psychosomatic medicine 1993 Horowitz MJ, Bonanno GA, Holen A
• A model of mourning: change in schemas of self and other.
  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 1990 Horowitz MJ
• Clinical phenomenology of narcissistic pathology.
  The Psychiatric clinics of North America 1989 Horowitz MJ
• Relationship schema formulation: role-relationship models and intrapsychic conflict.
  Psychiatry 1989 Horowitz MJ
• Formulation of states of mind in psychotherapy.
  American journal of psychotherapy 1988 Horowitz MJ
• A scale for measuring the occurrence of positive states of mind: a preliminary report.
  Psychosomatic medicine 1988 Horowitz M, Adler N, Kegeles S
• A controlled trial of brief psychotherapy and mutual-help group treatment of conjugal bereavement.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1988 Marmar CR, Horowitz MJ, Weiss DS, Wilner NR, Kaltreider NB