Recent Publications:
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). Cyclical psychodynamics and the contextual self: The inner world, the intimate world, and the world of culture and society. New York: Routledge.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). Psychoanalysis and its social context. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 11, 58-68.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). Introduction to Japanese translation, Therapeutic communication: Knowing what to say when, Second Edition. Tokyo: Kongo Shuppan.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). Review of “Obama’s Race’ by M. Tesler & D. O. Sears. Political Psychology, 35, 1, 125-127.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). Depth, perception, and action: Past, present, and future. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 24, 332-340.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). On the limits of theoretical fundamentalism. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 24, 95-98.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). An integrative relational point of view. Psychotherapy, 51, 342-349.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). When the context is in the room: Extending the relational paradigm. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 24, 419-426.
Wachtel, P. L. (2015). Reflections on relational psychoanalysis and psychotherapy integration. In J. Bresler & K. Starr (Eds.), Psychotherapy integration and relational psychoanalysis (pp. 282-302). New York: Routledge.
Wachtel, P. L. (2015). Cyclical psychodynamics. In E. S. Neukrug (Ed.), Encyclopedia of theory in counseling and psychotherapy, Vol.2 (pp. 264-268). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Wachtel, P. L. (2015). Symptoms, character, and context. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 25 (3), 187-195.
Wachtel, P. L. 2015). Still crazy after all these years. The Integrative Therapist, 1 (1), 2-3.
Wachtel, P. L. (2016). Psicodinamica ciclica: Il mondo esterno, il mondo interno, e il loro rapporto attraverso l’azione. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 50 (2), 189-206.
Wachtel, P. L. (2016). Psicoanalisi e psicoterapia: teorie, pratiche e contesti multipli. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane., 50 (3), 617-624.
Wachtel, P. l. & Abernathy, A. (2016). Cyclical psychodynamics and group psychotherapy. The Group Circle, Fall 2016, 1-6.
Wachtel, P. (2016). Personalities of Psychology. E-mental: Electronic Journal of Mental Health. 4 (3-4), pp. 46 - 53. ISSN 1339 - 4614 [Osobnosti psychológie. E-mental: Elektronický casopis o mentálnom zdraví. 4 (3-4), pp. 46 - 53]
Wachtel, P. L. (2016). Preface to Japanese edition. In P. L. Wachtel, Inside the session: What really happens in psychotherapy? Japanese translation. Tokyo: Kongo Shuppan
Wachtel, P. L. (2017). The more things change, the more they remain the same: The poverty of affluence in 2016. In P. L. Wachtel, The Poverty of Affluence, Revised edition. Brooklyn, New York: Ig Press.
Wachtel, P. L. (2017). Psychoanalysis and the Moebius strip: Reexamining the relation between the internal world and the world of daily experience. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 34, 58-68.
Wachtel, P. L. (2017). Principles of change in individual and couples therapy. In E. F. Wachtel, The heart of couple therapy (pp. 245-268). New York: Guilford.
Wachtel, P. L. (2017). Psychotherapy integration and Jeffery Smith’s structured interview. The Integrative Therapist, 3 (2), 5-6.
Wachtel, P. L. (2017). Cyclical psychodynamics. In A. E. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology, Vol. 7 (p. 947). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. DOI:
Wachtel, P. L. (2017). The ambiguities of neutrality: Comment on Gelso and Kanninen (2017). Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 27(3), 342-349.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/int0000091
Wachtel, P. L. (2017). The relationality of everyday life: The unfinished journey of relational psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27, 1-19 DOI 10.1080/10481885.2017.1355673
Wachtel, P. L. (2017). A procedural, contextual, action-focused understanding: Response to Renn and Westerman, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27 (5), 546-556. DOI 10.1080/10481885.2017.1355685
Garcia-Leeds, C., Schneider, L. 7 Wachtel, P. L. (2017). Abordaje sistémico en familias latinas sobrevivientes de violencia doméstica en Estados Unidos (Systemic Approach in Latino Families Surviving Domestic Violence in the United States Revista Propósitos y Representaciones, ISSN 2307-7999, Jul.-Dic. 2017, Vol. 5, N° 2. En prensa e-ISSN 2310-4635.
http://dx.doi.org/10.20511/pyr2017.v5n2.164
Wachtel, P. L. (2017). Beyond silos: Toward a more a comprehensive foundation for the theory and practice of psychotherapy. In Opazo Castro, R., Psicoterapia integrativa EIS: Profundiazando la Comprension Potenciando el Cambio (pp. 34-39). Santiago, Chile: Chilean Institute for Psychotherapy Integration.
Wachtel, E. F. & Wachtel, P. L. (2018). Integrative couple therapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (DVD).
Wachtel, P. L. (2018). What must we transcend to make progress in psychoanalysis?: Tribal boundaries, the default position, and the self-defeating quest for purity. In Axelrod, S., Naso, R. & Rosenberg, L.(Eds.), Progress in psychoanalysis: Envisioning the future of the
profession (pp 36-55). New York: Routledge.
Wachtel, P. L. (2018). Pathways to progress in psychotherapy integration. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 28 (2), 202-212.
Wachtel, P. L. (2018). The corrective emotional experience: Inside and outside the consulting room. The Integrative Therapist, 4 (3), 26-27.
Wachtel, P. L. (2018). Toward a more fully integrative and contextual relational paradigm. In Aron, L., Grand, S, & Slochower, J. (Eds.) Decentering relational theory: a comparative critique (pp. 73-91). London & NY: Routledge.
Wachtel, P. L. & Gagnon, G. (in press). Cyclical psychodynamics. In J. Norcross & M. R. Goldfried (Eds.), Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration, Third Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wachtel, P.L. (in press). Multiple wishes, multiple fears: On parallelism in neural processing and the relation between person-centered and interpersonal explanations. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration
