Advances in Psychodynamic Psychiatry

César A. Alfonso, MD, Deputy Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. He also teaches at New York Medical College and Northwell Health. His recent work includes the study of the psychodynamic determinants of treatment adherence, the clinical care of persons with low vision and medical multimorbidities, and the design and implementation of psychotherapy training programs.Richard C. Friedman, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Faculty Member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His book on male homosexuality was the first to integrate neuroscience, sexology, developmental psychology, and psychoanalytic theory and practice. He began a collaboration with Jennifer I. Downey in 1991 that led to many publications and a book on sexual orientation and psychoanalysis. Drs. Friedman and Downey served as Co-Chairs of the Human Sexuality Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Dr. Friedman is a recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Award from the Sigourney Trust. He practices in New York City.Jennifer I. Downey, MD, Deputy Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Faculty Member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Downey has conducted research on sexual orientation in women, Turner Syndrome, and mental health effects of infertility in women, and was the first investigator to demonstrate that sex hormones in homosexual and heterosexual women do not differ. Past president of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, Dr. Downey was the first recipient of the Academy's Victor J. Teichner Award. She was Visiting Professor at the University of Kentucky from 2009-2011. She practices in New York City.