JESSICA B. LONDA, PH.D.
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST-DOCTORATE
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Authorization to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT) #19079
Reading List
An Introduction to Sigmund Freud in His Own Words
Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1909), given at Clark University, Worcester, MA.
https://www.rasch.org/over.htm
Basic Freud. Psychoanalytic Thought for the 21st Century (2002).
Kahn, M. Basic Books, New York, NY
An Interview with Mark Solms on Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BElUOQqvyEg
Solms, M. (2026). The Only Cure: Freud and the neuroscience of mental healing.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Research on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Efficacy
de Maat, S., Philipszoon, F., Schoevers, R., Dekker, J., De Jonghe, F. (2007). Costs and benefits
of long-term psychoanalytic therapy: Changes in healthcare use and work impairment. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 15(6), 289-300.
Etkin, A., Pittenger, C., Polan, H. J., Kandel, E. R., (2005). Toward a neurobiology of
psychotherapy: Basic science and clinical applications. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 17(2), 145-158.
Fonagy, P., Rost, J., McPherson, S., Thomas, R., Pasco Fearon, R. M., et. al. (2015). Pragmatic
randomized controlled trial of long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for treatment-resistant depression: The Tavistock adult depression study (TADS). World Psychiatry 14(3), 312-321.
Glass, R. M. (2008). Psychodynamic psychotherapy and research evidence: Bambi survives
Godzilla? Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 300(13), 1587-1589.
Leichsenring, F., & Rabung, S. (2008). Effectiveness of long-term psychodynamic
psychotherapy: A meta-analysis. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 300(13), 1551-1565.
Leichsenring, F., Leweke, F., Klein, S., Steinert, C. (2015). The empirical status of
psychodynamic psychotherapy - An update: Bambi’s alive and kicking. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 84, 129-148.
Levy, R., & Ablon, S. J., (Eds.), (2009). Handbook of evidence-based psychodynamic
psychotherapy: Bridging the gap between science and practice. New York: Humana Press.
Meyersohn, L. (2024). American Psychoanalyst's Substack Post: Revisiting Freud's
Discrediting https://americanpsychoanalyst.substack.com/p/revisiting-freuds-discrediting
McGranaghan, L. (2026). American Psychoanalyst's Substack Post: Freud on the Brain, a
conversation with Mark Solms. https://americanpsychoanalyst.substack.com/p/freud-on-the-brain
Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist 65 (2),
98-109. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-65-2-98.pdf
Solms, M. (2018). The scientific standing of psychoanalysis. British Journal of Psychiatry
International 15 (1), 5-8.
Two Quotations of Interest
“In every instance where such a [chemical] imbalance was thought to be found, it was later proved to be false,” J. Glenmullen, Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, in his book Prozac Backlash, p. 196, (2000), New York: Simon & Schuster.
“The brain is by far the most complex piece of highly excitable matter in the known universe by any measure. We don’t even understand the brain of a worm.” Christof Koch, the chief scientist and president of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, explaining some of the challenges involved in artificial intelligence design as quoted in the New York Times October 15, 2018.
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