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  • The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition

    The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition - Paperback

    The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition - Paperback

    By Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman

About Myrna M. Weissman Books

Myrna M. Weissman, PhD, is Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor of Epidemiology and 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). She received her PhD in Epidemiology from Yale University School of Medicine where she also became a professor. Early on in her career she began working with Gerald Klerman at Yale University on the development of IPT. Together they carried out this work, testing IPT in several clinical trials of maintenance and acute treatment of depression and modification for primary care they called Interpersonal Counseling. They published the first IPT manual in 1984.