Affect-Focused Psychotherapy Research Program
About Our Program
The Affect-Focused Psychotherapy Research Program is a section of the Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein (PRIME) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences devoted to researching non-exposure-based psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, interpersonal and supportive psychotherapies, as well as investigating attachment and reflective function. The team, led by Barbara Milrod, MD, includes Montefiore Einstein faculty, project coordinators and research assistants.
Areas of Concentration
Our Program is currently focused on the following active studies:
- Trauma-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy (TFPP) for people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Meaning-centered grief therapy for parents who have lost children to cancer
- Comparing interpersonal therapy to exposure therapy for PTSD in military personnel and veterans
- Use of panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy (PFPP)
About Barbara Milrod, MD
Barbara Milrod, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Barbara Milrod is an unusual academic in psychiatry in that she is both a rigorous clinical researcher and a psychoanalyst. Over the past several decades, she has developed and spearheaded a research program focusing on manualizing, efficacy testing and disseminating efficacious, brief psychodynamic psychotherapies for use in multiple clinical settings, including at three Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals in the New York Metropolitan Area.
She has been the principal investigator (PI) on multiple grants for developing and testing various psychotherapies, including dynamic therapies, two of which were funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She has assumed primary and secondary mentorship roles on postdoctoral grants, doctoral grants and theses and served as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Career Development Awards (K awards)-level mentor to U.S. and European researchers. She has trained and supervised hundreds of therapists, supervisors, doctoral, predoctoral, postdoctoral, resident and faculty-level trainees across at least twenty countries.