Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Edited by John C. Markowitz and Myrna M. Weissman

The first casebook for interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT)
Written by leaders in the field of IPT
Illustrates the use of IPT in the hands of expert psychotherapists treating patients with a range of conditions and complications in different IPT treatment formats
For psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, and other mental health professionals

Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Edited by John C. Markowitz and Myrna M. Weissman

Description

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), an empirically validated treatment for depression and other disorders, is becoming more frequently used to treat a range of psychiatric diagnoses. Based on evidence that interpersonal problems contribute to the onset of psychiatric disorders, IPT helps patients to change interpersonal behavior in order to improve psychosocial functioning and relieve symptoms. IPT both relieves psychiatric symptoms and helps to build social skills.

Bringing together experts who have treated patients with and conducted clinical research on IPT, the Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy responds to the growing need for a foundational text to supplement the available manuals on IPT. The Casebook provides a wealth of real life treatment material, and illustrates the use of IPT in the hands of expert psychotherapists treating patients with a range of conditions and complications in different IPT treatment formats. The detailed cases give a sense of how IPT proceeds and how it works. Chapter authors describe specific adaptations of IPT for patients with particular disorders, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and personality disorders. The book also covers different contexts in which IPT may be practiced, including group therapy, inpatient settings, and telephone therapy. The Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy is an invaluable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and other mental health professionals interested in psychotherapy.

Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Edited by John C. Markowitz and Myrna M. Weissman

Chapter 1 Introduction
John C. Markowitz and Myrna M. Weissman

Section 1 - Mood Disorders

Chapter 2 Complicated Grief
Roslyn Law

Chapter 3 Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Major Depression - Role Dispute
Jonathan Lichtmacher and Iljie Fitzgerald

Chapter 4 Major Depressive Disorder - Role Transition
Paula Ravitz and Robert Maunder

Chapter 5 Major Depressive Disorder - Interpersonal Deficits
Sue Luty

Chapter 6 Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Chronic Depression
John C. Markowitz

Chapter 7 Interpersonal Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) for Bipolar Disorder: Review and Case Conceptualization
Robin Nusslock and Ellen Frank

Section 2 - Other Psychiatric Disorders

Chapter 8 Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders
Denise E. Wilfley, Juliette M. Iacovino, and Dorothy J. Van Buren

Chapter 9 Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Elizabeth P. Graf and John C. Markowitz

Chapter 10 Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
Joshua D. Lipsitz

Chapter 11 Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Kathryn L. Bleiberg and John C. Markowitz

Section 3 - Treating Major Depression in Diverse Populations
Chapter 12 Treatment of Adolescent Depression with Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Laura Mufson, Laurie Reider Lewis, Meredith Gunlicks-Stoessel, and Jami F. Young

Chapter 13 Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Peripartum Depression
Kathryn L. Bleiberg

Chapter 14 Using IPT with Older Individuals
Mark D. Miller and Charles F. Reynolds, III

Chapter 15 IPT for Medically Ill Depressed Patients
Marcela Hoffer, John C. Markowitz, and Carlos Blanco

Chapter 16 IPT and Cultural Issues: The Case of Hispanic Patients
Sapana R. Patel and Roberto Lewis-Fernández

Chapter 17 Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Women with Depression: Living on Low Incomes
Nancy K. Grote, Holly A. Swartz, and Allan Zuckoff

Chapter 18 IPT in Developing Countries
Helena Verdeli, Charles D.R. Baily, Christine Nanyondo, Jessica A. Keith, and Ori Elis

Section 4 - Using IPT in Differing Formats
Chapter 19 Maintenance Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT-M)
Mark D. Miller, Ellen Frank, and Jessica C. Levenson

Chapter 20 Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Group (IPT-G)
R. Robinson Welch, Monica S. Mills, and Denise Wilfley

Chapter 21 IPT for Inpatient Depression
Elizabeth Schramm

Chapter 22 IPT by Telephone
Carlos Blanco, Joshua Lipsitz, and Eve Caligor

Chapter 23 Afterword
Myrna M. Weissman and John C. Markowitz

References

Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Edited by John C. Markowitz and Myrna M. Weissman

Author Information

John C. Markowitz, M.D. is a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City.

Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D. is a Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and Chief of the Division of Epidemiology at New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI).

Contributors:

Charles D.R. Baily, M.A.
Teachers College
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Kathryn L. Bleiberg, Ph.D.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, NY

Carlos Blanco, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Eve Caligor, M.D.
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Columbia University

Ori Elis, M.A.
Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley

Iljie Fitzgerald, M.D., M.S.
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco

Ellen Frank, Ph.D.
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Elizabeth Graf, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Nancy K. Grote, Ph.D.
School of Social Work
University of Washington

Meredith Gunlicks-Stoessel, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Marcela Hoffer, L.C.S.W., M.S., M.A.
National Center for Disaster Preparedness
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

Juliette McClendon-Iacovino
Department of Psychology
Washington University in St. Louis

Jessica A. Keith, Ph.D.
Teachers College
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Roslyn Law, Ph.D.
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
London, United Kingdom

Jessica C. Levenson, M.S.
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Laurie Reider Lewis, Psy.D.,
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Roberto Lewis-Fernández, M.D.
Columbia University Medical Center
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Jonathan Lichtmacher, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco

Joshua D. Lipsitz, Ph.D.
Ben Gurion University of the Negev College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University

Sue Luty, Ph.D.
University of Otago
Christchurch, New Zealand

John C. Markowitz, M.D.
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Robert Maunder, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Mount Sinai Hospital
University of Toronto

Mark D. Miller, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Monica Mills, M.A.
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine

Laura Mufson, Ph.D.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Christine Nanyondo, M.A.
Teachers College
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Robin Nusslock, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University

Sapana R. Patel, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University Medical Center
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Paula Ravitz, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Mount Sinai Hospital
University of Toronto

Charles F. Reynolds, III, M.D.
Institute on Aging
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Elizabeth Schramm, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
University Medical Center
Freiburg, Germany

Holly A. Swartz, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Dorothy J. Van Buren, Ph.D.
Division of Behavioral Medicine
St. Louis University Medical Center

Helena Verdeli, Ph.D.
Teachers College
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute

R. Robinson Welch, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University, St. Louis

Denise Wilfley, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University, St. Louis

Jami F. Young, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
Rutgers University

Allan Zuckoff, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Edited by John C. Markowitz and Myrna M. Weissman

Reviews and Awards

"In my view, all trainees and advanced clinicians wishing to learn IPT or to hone their general psychotherapy skills will stand to benefit considerably from reading and studying this welcome and edifying book. And, although I have been teaching IPT formally and informally to residents as well as to others for several decades, I know that from now on, I'll personally be using the Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy to enrich my instruction." -- JOEL YAGER, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry

"In the meantime, for clinicians working on the front lines in a highly pressured managed-care environment, Markowitz and Weissman have provided a clear set of therapeutic techniques for a wide range of disorders with an easily assimilable theory supported by research and presented in the medical lingua franca of our evidence-based culture. As they themselves urge at the end of the book, now it's time for their readers to let them know whether IPT actually makes sense and works for them." -- PsycCRITIQUES

"This book is an important addition to the literature on brief psychotherapy. It will be useful to both the novice and the experienced psychotherapist. It will prod therapists who primarily provide more extensive psychotherapies to consider more actively when a brief therapy such as IPT may allow the patient to achieve meaningful and lasting change. Additionally, the extensive bibliography is an excellent resource for those wishing to learn more about psychotherapy research." -- Journal of Clinical Psychiatry