Jonathan Shedler
American psychologist; wrote “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” and created the SWAP personality assessment.
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- Jonathan Shedler is an American psychologist, author and clinical teacher.
- He is best known for his 2010 article in American Psychologist, “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, which argued that psychodynamic therapy is an evidence-based treatment.
- He created the Shedler–Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) for personality diagnosis and is a co-author of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-3).
- As of 2026 he is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
Key facts
- Best-known paper
- “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”, American Psychologist, 20102
- Assessment
- Created the Shedler–Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP)1
- Manual
- Co-author of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-3)1
- UCSF
- Clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as of 20261
- Psychoanalysis
- Training and supervising analyst, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis1
- Publications
- More than 100 scientific and scholarly articles1
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