Myrna Weissman

Myrna Weissman
Born (1935-04-17) April 17, 1935 (age 89)
Boston, MA, United States
Alma materBrandeis University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale School of Medicine
Occupation(s)Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry
Organization(s)Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Known forInterpersonal psychotherapy, Translational Epidemiology, Depression in Families

Myrna Milgram Weissman is Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and Chief of the Division of Translational Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is an epidemiologist known for her research on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and psychiatric epidemiology, as it pertains to rates and risks of anxiety and mood disorders across generations.[1][2] Among her many influential works are longitudinal studies of the impact of parental depression on their children.[3][4]

Weissman worked with Gerald Klerman in developing Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) as one of the first evidence-based treatments for depression. IPT is defined in a manual and now has over 140 clinical trials, numerous transitions, and adaptations. They co-authored with Bruce Rounsaville and Eva Chevron the influential volume Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Depression: A Brief, Focused, Specific Strategy.[5] Extending the approach to adolescents, Weissman co-authored the book Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents, with Laura Mufson, Kristen Pollack Dorta, and Donna Moreau.[6] Other books co-authored by Weissman, including The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition,[7] offered further developments of their psychotherapeutic approach. Weissman and Klerman were jointly honored by the National Academy of Medicine in 1994 as recipients of the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health.[8] In 1996, they jointly received the Joseph Zubin Award established by the American Psychopathological Association for seminal contributions to psychopathology research.

  1. ^ "Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D. | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  2. ^ Goleman, Daniel (1992-12-08). "A Rising Cost Of Modernity: Depression". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
  3. ^ Weissman, Myrna M. (1997-10-01). "Offspring of Depressed Parents". Archives of General Psychiatry. 54 (10): 932–40. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1997.01830220054009. ISSN 0003-990X. PMID 9337774.
  4. ^ Weissman, Myrna M.; Wickramaratne, Priya; Nomura, Yoko; Warner, Virginia; Pilowsky, Daniel; Verdeli, Helen (2006-06-01). "Offspring of Depressed Parents: 20 Years Later". American Journal of Psychiatry. 163 (6): 1001–1008. doi:10.1176/ajp.2006.163.6.1001. ISSN 0002-953X. PMID 16741200.
  5. ^ Interpersonal psychotherapy of depression. Klerman, Gerald L., 1928-1992. (1st softcover ed.). Northvale, N.J.: J. Aronson. 1984. ISBN 978-1568213507. OCLC 32018664.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ Interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents. Mufson, Laura., Dorta, Kristen Pollack., Moreau, Donna., Weissman, Myrna M. (2nd ed.). New York: The Guilford Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1609182267. OCLC 687712011.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ Weissman, Myrna M. (2007). The guide to interpersonal psychotherapy. Markowitz, John C., Klerman, Gerald L. (Updated and expanded ed.). New York, NY, United States of America. ISBN 978-0190662592. OCLC 987909758.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ "The Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health – National Academy of Medicine". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved 2017-12-02.