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Glen O. Gabbard, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and a training and supervising analyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston. He is an internationally renowned psychoanalyst and psychiatric educator whose main areas of interest are: (1) boundaries and boundary violations in therapeutic relationships; (2) psychodynamic/psychoanalytic treatment of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders; and (3) the psychological vulnerabilities of physicians, psychotherapists, and other helping professionals.

Early Life and Educational Background

Gabbard was born on August 8, 1949, in Charleston, Illinois. His father was Eastern Illinois University Theatre Arts Department Chair E. Glendon Gabbard, and his mother was actress Lucina Paquet Gabbard. Gabbard attended Northwestern University and the University of Texas, and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Theater from Eastern Illinois University (Kaplan 2005). He completed...

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  • Gabbard, G. O. (1995). Love and hate in the analytic setting. New York: Jason Aronson.

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  • Gabbard, G. O. (2014a). Psychodynamic psychiatry in clinical practice (5th ed.). Arlington: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

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  • Gabbard, G. O. (2014b). Gabbard’s treatments of psychiatric disorders (5th ed.). Arlington: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

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  • Gabbard, G. O. (2016). Boundaries and boundary violations in psychoanalysis (2nd ed.). Arlington: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

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  • Gabbard, G. O., & Gabbard, K. (1999). Psychiatry and the cinema (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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References

  • Gabbard, G. O. (2000). A neurobiologically informed perspective on psychotherapy. British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, 117–122.

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  • Gabbard, G. O. (2002). The psychology of the sopranos: Love, death, desire and betrayal in america’s favorite gangster family. New York: Basic Books.

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  • Gabbard, G. O. (2011). Why I teach. Academic Psychiatry, 35, 277–282.

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  • Gabbard, G. O., & Horowitz, M. (2010). Using media to teach how not to do psychotherapy. Academic Psychiatry, 34, 27–30.

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  • Kaplan, A. (2005). Through the times with Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. Psychiatric Times, XXII(4).

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  • Ogden, T. H. (1979). On projective identification. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 60, 357–373.

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Seritan, A.L. (2019). Gabbard, Glen O.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_185-1

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