Leigh McCullough
Leigh McCullough Ph.D.
Vikersund, Norway
Morning Session Sunday July 18th, 2010“Easing up on the Brake Pedal:
Resolving Affect Phobias in the Resistant Patient”
Leigh McCullough is Director of the Research Institute at Modum Bad Psychiatric Center in Vikersund, Norway, outside of Oslo. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts), where she co-teaches a course on Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and co-directs the Psychotherapy Research Program. She is also Director of Research of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA). She is currently involved in an extensive analysis of videotaped psychotherapy to identify mechanisms of change.
Dr. McCullough was the 1996 Voorhees Distinguished Professor at the Menninger Clinic and received the 1996 Michael Franz Basch Award from the Silvan Tomkins Institute for her contributions toward the exploration of affect in psychotherapy. She is the author of several books, (e.g., Changing Character published by Basic Books, 1997, and Treating Affect Phobia published by Guilford Publications 2002.), and her writing focuses on psychotherapy process research, theory and practice of short term dynamic psychotherapy. More information on research and training can be found on her websites www.affectphobia.com and www.leighmccullough.com
Leigh McCullough is an Associate Clinical Professor and Director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts), a Visiting Professor II at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway), and Director of Research of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association. She is also Co-Director of the Trondheim Psychotherapy Research Program where she is involved in an extensive analysis of videotaped psychotherapy to identify mechanisms of change.
More information on research and training can be found on the website www.affectphobia.com. She is in Private Practice in Dedham, MA.
Currently, Dr McCullough and her husband, John Boettiger, live in Vikersund, Norway. In their spare time they love to read, garden, hike in the Norwegian woods, enjoy Mediterranean beaches and French wine, but most of all what Italians call “Il dolce far niente,” the sweetness of doing absolutely nothing.