Department of Psychiatry Faculty

Sidney J. Blatt, PhD Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology Chief, Psychology Section 300 George Street New Haven, CT 06511 Suite 901 Tel: 203-785-2090 FAX: 203-785-7357 Email: sidney.blatt@yale.edu

Education

1950, B.S., Pennsylvania State University
1952, M.S., Pennsylvania State University
1957, Ph.D., University of Chicago
1957-59, Fellowship: Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL
1972, Graduate, Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis

Academic Interest

The development of mental representations (cognitive-affective schema of self and other), their impairment in different forms of psychopathology (especially schizophrenia and depression), and their change in the therapeutic process.

Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ)
Note: DEQ computer programs for scoring the adult and adolescent versions of the DEQ are available from Dr. Blatt (Sidney.Blatt@Yale.edu) or from Professor David Zuroff at McGill University(Zuroff@ego.psych.McGill.ca)

Object Relations Inventory (ORI)

• Conceptual Level Scale and Qualitative Dimensions
• Differentiation-Relatedness Scale
• Note: Manuals for these scales are available from Dr. Blatt (sidney.blatt@yale.edu) or from Professor John S. Auerbach at East Tennessee State University john.auerbach@med.va.gov

Assessment of Self Representation

Note: A manual for this scale can be obtained from Dr. Blatt (sidney.blatt@yale.edu) or from Susan A. Bers (susan.bers@yale.edu)

Two polarities of experience in personality development, psychopathology and the therapeutic process.

Note: Information about this theoretical model can be obtained from Dr. Blatt (sidney.blatt@yale.edu) or Professor Patrick Luyten at the University of Leuven (patrick.luyten@psy.kuleuven.be)

Publications of Note

Blatt, S. J. & Wild, C. M. (1976). Schizophrenia: A developmental analysis. New York: Academic Press.

Blatt, S. J. (in collaboration with E. S. Blatt) (1984). Continuity and change in art: The development of modes of representation. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Blatt, S.J., & Ford, R.Q. (1994): Therapeutic change: An object relations perspective. New York: Plenum.

Blatt, S.J., Auerbach, J.S., & Levy, K.N. (1997). Mental representations in personality development, psychopathology, and the therapeutic process. Review of General Psychology, 1, 351-374.

Blatt, S.J.: Representational structures in psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti & S. Toth (Eds.). Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, Volume VI: Emotion, Cognition, and Representation, (pp. 1-33). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1995.

Blatt, S.J. (1998). Contributions of psychoanalysis to the understanding and treatment of depression. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 46, 723-752.

Blatt, S.J., & Auerbach, J.S. (2001). Mental representation, severe psychopathology, and the therapeutic process. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 49, 113-159.

Blatt, S.J. (2004). Experiences of depression: Theoretical, research and clinical perspectives. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.

Corveleyn, J., Luyten, P., & Blatt, S.J. (Eds.) (2005) The Theory and treatment of depression: Towards a Dynamic Interactionism Model. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press and Rahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Blatt, S. J., & Shahar, G. (2004). Psychoanalysis: For what, with whom, and how: A comparison with psychotherapy. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 52, 393-447. (Award for Outstanding Scientific Contribution from American Psychoanalytic Association)

Blatt, S. J., & Zuroff, D. C. (2005). Empirical evaluation of the assumptions in identifying evidence based treatments in mental health. Clinical Psychology Review, 25, 459-486.

Blatt, S.J., (2008). Polarities of experience: Relatedness and self-definition in personality development, psychopathology, and the therapeutic process. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.

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