This year’s Distinguished Psychiatrist Award recipient, Dr. Deborah L. Cabaniss, has dedicated her career to teaching clinicians how to think analytically and how to communicate psychodynamic principles in order to facilitate their incorporation into clinical work. Dr. Cabaniss joins us from Columbia University and the affiliated New York State Psychiatric Institute where she is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Associate Director of Residency Training. She serves as Columbia University’s Director of Psychotherapy Training and sits on the Executive Committee of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  

Dr. Cabaniss has written several books aimed at teaching principles of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and has dozens of original articles to her credit. Her book Psychodynamic Formulation is mandatory reading in many psychiatric training programs. In addition to her extensive list of publications, she has served on the editorial boards of both the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.  

In her lecture titled “Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach,” Dr. Cabaniss will discuss the steps of the DESCRIBE/REVIEW/METHOD for collaboratively creating psychodynamic formulations with an emphasis on the way that culture and society impact unconscious development. 

The lecture is free and open to all mental health professionals. 

2 hours of CME credit 

RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Any questions (and RSVPs) should be directed to Lela DeGolia at ldegolia@mednet.ucla.edu (310) 403-7840