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Sidney Blatt, Ph.D.

Sidney J. Blatt, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Yale University and Chief of the Psychology Section in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, is also a member of the faculty of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Blatt’s primary interests are in the psychological development of mental representations of self and significant others; the differential impairment of these representations in various forms of psychopathology; especially depression and schizophrenia; and the processes through which these impaired representations are revised in the therapeutic process.

He has received awards for distinguished contributions to research from the Association of Professors of Psychology in Medical Schools, the Society for Personality Assessment, Divisions 12 (Clinical Psychology) and 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Hans Strupp Award sponsored by the Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society, and the Mary S. Sigourney Award for distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis. His most recent books are Experiences of Depression: Theoretical, Clinical and Research Perspectives (2004) and Polarities of Experience: Relatedness and Self-definition in Personality Development, Psychopathology and the Therapeutic Process (2008).

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