Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

John C. Markowitz, M.D.,
 is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University 
College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State 
Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Markowitz is an internationally recognized expert in psy-
chotherapy research who has conducted NIMH-  and foundation- funded studies of 
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), cognitive behavioral therapies, and medications. 
He has studied treatments of mood, anxiety, and personality disorders, and has pub-
lished more than 300 peer- reviewed articles, chapters, and reviews.
 

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INDEX
abuse by previous therapists, 136
adaptive interpersonal behaviors, 
supporting, 76
adherence of therapist, 12, 24, 25, 47, 48
f
, 
138– 40, 142
affect. 
See also
 anger; emotions/ feelings; 
normalization of affect; sadness; 
validating feelings
tolerating, 44, 69, 72– 73, 141
affective attunement, 8, 24, 54, 72,  
89, 146
affective  reattunement, 48– 50
alexithymia, 33, 49
anger. 
See also
 normalization of affect
case material, 82– 83, 90– 93, 95– 97, 
111– 12, 116
expressing, 75, 95– 96, 112, 116
validating and normalizing, 64– 66, 
74, 75, 82– 83, 90– 93, 97, 111– 12, 
121, 133
assertion. 
See
  self- assertion
attachment. 
See also
 secure  
attachment
PTSD  and, 53– 54
attunement. 
See
 affective attunement; 
affective reattunement
audiotaping  sessions, 138– 39
avoidance symptoms, 2– 4, 9
t
, 18, 23, 29, 
30
t
, 51– 53, 61, 72, 80, 86
avoidant personality disorder, 13,  
15
t
, 21
Beck, Aaron T., 26
bereavement. 
See
 complicated grief/ 
complicated bereavement
blaming. 
See also
  self- blame
the illness, 33, 38, 40, 42, 62– 63, 132
the treatment, 127
the victim, 135
Bleiberg, Kathryn L., vii, 5
t
, 8, 94
borderline personality disorder, 15
t
, 22, 
119, 123
breathing exercises, 140
Campanini, R. F., 5
t
, 6– 7
chaos, feeling of, 69. 
See also
 role 
transition(s)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), 
x– xi,  3,  22– 26,  51– 52. 
See also
 
Prolonged Exposure
communication  analysis, 71– 73
comorbidity, 32, 56, 127, 134– 35. 
See also 
under
 major depression/ major 
depressive disorder
competence 
patient sense of, 52, 86, 88, 104, 
125, 126
therapist technical, 12, 142– 43
complicated  grief/ complicated 
bereavement, 44, 45, 54, 59, 60, 68, 
79, 99. 
See also
 grief
case  example, 99– 103
confidentiality, 79, 133, 138
 

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162  I n D E x
dangerousness,  57, 130– 33
depression, 70. 
See also
 complicated grief/ 
complicated bereavement; major 
depression/ major  depressive 
disorder
assessment of, 139
as a medical illness, 37– 38
role disputes and, 45
and self- blame, 33, 38, 40, 42
and  suicide, 130– 32
symptoms of, 37– 41, 45
treatment of, 19, 20
t
, 42– 44
detachment, affective/ emotional, 3, 4, 31
t
, 
107, 117, 119, 120
direction, regaining a, 45, 69
dissociation, 3, 27, 29, 30