Fred Busch
Fredric N. Busch, MD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His research and writing, including several books, have focused on topics including psychodynamic approaches to specific disorders, integrating psychotherapy and medication, and problem-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dr. Busch was involved in developing panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy, the first psychodynamic treatment of a DSM anxiety disorder to demonstrate efficacy. He is the recipient of teaching and research awards from the American Psychoanalytic Association, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Weill Cornell Medical College, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
How Does Analysis Cure?: Essays on a Psychoanalytic Method, Psychoanalytic Organizations and Psychoanalysts
Building upon fifty years of clinical experience, Fred Busch addresses a central question facing all psychoanalysts: What is essential to a psychoanalytic curative process, and what are the methods... (more)
Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession
In this first-of-kind book, senior psychoanalysts from around the world offer personal reflections on their own training, what it was like to become a psychoanalyst, and what they would like most to... (more)
The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later
The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later revisits Freud’s classic 1923 essay, which developed key psychoanalytic concepts and presented a radical revision of his earlier theory.
International... (more)
Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression: Second Edition
Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression addresses the use of psychodynamic psychotherapy, both alone and in combination with cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and medication treatments, as a method... (more)
The Analyst's Reveries: Explorations in Bion's Enigmatic Concept
While the use of the analyst's own reveries in work with patients has increased in recent times, there has been little critical inquiry into its value, and the problems it may lead to. The Analyst's... (more)
Rethinking Clinical Technique
This text addresses the issue of whether it is possible to think clearly about clinical technique in an era of fluidity and change. Using clinical examples, the author offers an approach to clinical... (more)
The Ego at the Center of Clinical Technique:
This text emphasises the role of the ego in our understanding of and interventions in the therapeutic setting. It examines the ways the ego defends awareness of unconscious fantasies, how defences... (more)
Psychotherapy and Medication: The Challenge of Integration
Over the past two decades, the use of medication combined with psychodynamic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis has shifted from an infrequent occurrence to common practice. Concurrently, attitudes... (more)
Manual of Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Extended Range
This manual presents a carefully researched, detailed psychodynamic treatment program for the alleviation of a transdiagnostic range of primary Axis I anxiety disorders, including panic disorder,... (more)
Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Method and Theory
Bringing a fresh contemporary Freudian view to a number of current issues in psychoanalysis, this book is about a psychoanalytic method that has been evolved by Fred Busch over the past 40 years... (more)
A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
This collection of selected papers explores psychoanalytic technique, exemplifying Fred Busch's singular contribution to this subject, alongside the breadth and depth of his work.
Covering key... (more)
Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective
In this clear and thoughtful book, an international group of distinguished authors explore the central issues and future directions facing psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The book explores... (more)
Manual of Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
This text suggests that psychodynamic approaches can aid both psycopharmacological and cognitive-behavioural treatments. It catalogues psychological factors commonly present in panic disorder... (more)
Skills Training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Problem-Focused Approach
This hands-on guide offers therapists a fresh perspective and invaluable practical tools for implementing rapid, targeted psychodynamic interventions that help clients achieve lasting change. Known... (more)