Biografisk notat

Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist who has been in clinical practice for close to 3 years. He served as an adjunct professor in clinical psychology at the University of Hartford, where he taught and supervised doctoral students.
 
Dr. Magnavita has received awards for his work in science and practice. In 2 , he received the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector for his work developing a theoretical framework for unified clinical science called personality systematics.
 
He is the founder of the Unified Psychotherapy Project, whose mission is to catalogue the methods and techniques of unified psychotherapy.
 
Dr. Magnavita has been featured in two APA videotapes demonstrating personality-guided therapy using a unified approach. He has published extensively and has authored Restructuring Personality Disorders: A Short-Term Dynamic Approach ( 997), Relational Therapy for Personality Disorders (2 ), Personality-Guided Relational Therapy: A Unified Approach (2 5), and a textbook, Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality (2 2). He also was the volume editor of Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Vol. . Psychodynamic/Object Relations (2 2) and the Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory and Practice (2 4). He serves on the editorial board of a number of leading publications and has been a guest editor of a number of special editions of journals.
 
He was elected to serve as the president of APA's Division of Psychotherapy in 2 and has presented his work at various conferences and symposiums. He runs ongoing seminars in psychotherapy using videotape recordings as the vehicle for examining the process and technical aspects of treatment.
 
Dr. Magnavita lives in South Glastonbury, Connecticut, with his wife Anne and three daughters, Elizabeth, Emily, and Caroline.