(Including combined citations for “Pathology”, “Case Formulation” and
“Psychotherapeutic Policies and Techniques”)

Allen, C. (2013). Gender as one’s eligibility to engage in social practices: Unpacking the relationship between masculinity and intimate partner violence. In K.E. Davis, R.M. Bergner, & F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz, (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.10, (pp. 235-259). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press

Aylesworth, L.S. (2010). Oriental Martial Arts Rehabilitation. In K. E. Davis, F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.9. (pp. 113-142). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Aylesworth, L., & Ossorio, P. (1983). Refugees: Cultural displacement and its effects. In K. Davis and R. Bergner (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 3, (pp. 45-92). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Baker, E. (1982). Therapeutic social practices. In K. Davis and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 2, (pp. 209-230). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Bergner, R. (1977). The marital system of the hysterical individual. Family Process, 16, 85-95.

Bergner, R. (1979). The use of systems oriented illustrative stories in marital psychotherapy. Family Therapy, 6, 109-118.

Bergner, R. (1979). Transforming presenting problems. Rational Living, 14, 13-16.

Bergner, R. (1981). Marital conflict resolution: A conceptual framework and its empirical evaluation. In K. Davis (Ed.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 1, (pp. 305-320). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Bergner, R. (1981). Recasting victims as perpetrators. The Journal of Strategic and Systemic Therapies, 1, 1-9.

Bergner, R. (1981). The overseer regime: A descriptive and practical study of the obsessive compulsive personality style. In K. Davis, (Ed.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 1, (pp. 245-271). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Bergner, R. (1982). Couple therapy for histrionic clients and their spouses. In H. Millman, J. Huber, and D. Diggins (Eds.), Therapies for adults. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Bergner, R. (1982). Hysterical action, impersonation, and caretaking roles. In K. Davis and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 2, (pp, 233-247). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Bergner, R. (1983) Click here to purchase…Emotions: A conceptual formulation and its clinical implications. In K. Davis and R. Bergner (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 3, (pp. 209-227). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Process, 16, 85-95.

Bergner, R. (1985). Click here to purchase…Paranoid style: A descriptive and pragmatic account. In K. Davis and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 4, (pp. 203-229). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Bergner, R. (1987) Undoing degradation. Psychotherapy, 24, 25-30.

Bergner, R. (1988). Money’s ‘Lovemap’ account of the paraphilias: A critique and reformulation. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 42, 254-259.

Bergner, R. (1988). Status dynamic psychotherapy with depressed individuals. Psychotherapy, 25, 266-272.

Bergner, R.M. (1990). A Father-Daughter Incest: Degradation and Recovery from Degradation. In K.E. Davis, (Ed.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 5, (pp. 285-305). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R.M. (1990). Impulsive Action and Impulsive Persons: A Descriptive and Pragmatic Formulation. In K.E. Davis, (Ed.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 5, (pp. 261-284). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R., & Bergner, L. (1990). Sexual misunderstanding: A descriptive and pragmatic formulation. Psychotherapy, 27, 34-38.

Bergner, R.M. (1992). A Conceptual Framework for Eclectic
Psychotherapy. In M.K. Roberts, & R.M. Bergner, (Eds.). Clinical Topics: Contributions to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Adolescent-Family Problems, Bulimia, Chronic Mental Illness, and Mania. Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 6, (pp. 137-157). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R. (1993). Psychopathology and psychotherapy from a Descriptive Psychological point of view. In R. Bergner (Ed.), Studies in psychopathology: The Descriptive Psychology approach, (pp. 3-17). Ann Arbor: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R. (1993). Victims into perpetrators. Psychotherapy, 30, 452-462.

Bergner, R. (1995). Pathological Self-Criticism: Assessment and Treatment (The Springer Series in Social/Clinical Psychology). New York, NY: Plenum Press.

Bergner, R. (1997). What is psychopathology? And so what? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 4, 235-248.

Bergner, R. (1997). The use of a recent formulation of bulimia nervosa in the successful treatment of a bulimic woman. Family Therapy, 24, 71-79.

Bergner, R. (1997). What is psychopathology? And so what? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 4, 235-248.

Bergner, R. (1998). Self-criticism. In J. Jeffrey & R. Bergner, (Eds.). Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 7, (pp. 249-276). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R.M. (1998). A therapeutic approach to destructive self-criticism. In H.J. Jeffrey and R.M. Bergner, (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 7, (pp. 249-273). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R. (1998). Characteristics of an optimal clinical case formulation. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 52, 287-300.

Bergner, R. (1998). Therapeutic approaches to problems of meaninglessness. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 52, pp. 1-16.

Bergner, R. (1999). Status enhancement: A further path to therapeutic change. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 53, 201-214.

Bergner, R. (2000). Love and barriers to love: An analysis for psychotherapists and other. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 54, 1-17.

Bergner, R. (2002). Sexual compulsion as attempted recovery from degradation. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 28, 373-387.

Bergner, R. (2004). An integrative framework for psychopathology and psychotherapy. New Ideas in Psychology, 22, 127-141.

Bergner, R. (2005). Status dynamic treatment of a case of bulimia. Clinical Case Studies, 4, 295-303.

Bergner, R. (2006). The many secure knowledge bases of psychotherapy. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 69, 215-232.

Bergner, R.M. (2006). Beyond Empirical Validation: Justifying Therapeutic Judgment and Action. In K. E. Davis, & R. M Bergner (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 8 (pp. 145-173). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R.M. (2007). Status dynamics: Creating new paths to therapeutic change. Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R. (2007). Therapeutic storytelling revisited. American Journal of
Psychotherapy, 61, 149-162.

Bergner, R. (2007). On promoting adaptive self-criticism in psychotherapy. In E. Chang (Ed.), Self-criticism and self-enhancement. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Bergner, R. (2009). Trauma, exposure, and world reconstruction. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 63, 267-282.

Bergner, R.M. (2010). The Tolstoy dilemma: A paradigm case formulation and some therapeutic interventions. In K. E. Davis, F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.9. (pp. 143-160). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R.M. (2013). Therapeutic policies: A policy-based approach to psychotherapy. In K.E. Davis, R.M. Bergner, F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz, (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.10 (pp. 175-196). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R. (2015). Status dynamic psychotherapy. In E. Neukrig (Ed.) The Sage encyclopedia of counseling and psychotherapy. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications.

Bergner, R., & Bridges A. (2002). The significance of heavy pornography involvement for romantic partners: Research and clinical implications. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 28, 198-206.

Bergner, R.M., & Bunford, N. (2013). Suicide and impossible worlds. In K.E. Davis, R.M. Bergner, F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz, (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.10, (pp. 55-74). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bergner, R., & Bunford, N. (2017). Mental disorder is a disability concept, not a behavioral one. An empirical investigation. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 24, 25-40.

Bergner, R., & Bunford, N. (2017). Mental disorder disability: In support of our design. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 24, 49-52.

Bergner, R., & Holmes, J. (2000). Self-concepts and self-concept change: A status dynamic formulation. Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 37, 36-44.

Bergner, R.M., & Staggs, J. (1992). The Positive Therapeutic Relationship: An Accreditation Perspective. In M.K. Roberts, & R.M. Bergner, (Eds.). Clinical
Topics: Contributions to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Adolescent-Family Problems, Bulimia, Chronic Mental Illness, and Mania. Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 6 (pp. 185-201). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Bridges, A., & Bergner, R. (2009). Pornography, effects on relationships. In H. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Bridges, A., Bergner, R., & McInnis, M. (2003). Romantic partner’s use of pornography: Its significance for women. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. 29, 1-14.

Bunford, N., & Bergner, R. (2012). Suicide and impossible worlds: An empirical investigation. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 33, 335-343.

Davis, K.E. (2006). Stalkers and their Worlds. In K. E. Davis, & R. M Bergner (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 8, (pp. 325-348). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Driscoll, R. (1981). Policies for pragmatic psychotherapy. In K. Davis (Ed.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 1 (pp. 273-277). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Driscoll, R. (1981). Self-criticism: Analysis and treatment. In K. Davis, (Ed.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 1 (pp. 321-356). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Farber, A. (1981). Castaneda’s Don Juan as psychotherapist. In K. Davis (Ed.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 1 (pp. 279-304). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Felknor, C.M. (1998). Kid’s interest discovery kits. In H.J. Jeffrey and R.M. Bergner, (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 7 (pp. 235-247). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Holmes, J.R. (2013). Depression doesn’t always have to be depressing. Pensacola, FL.: Pensacola Pelican Press, Inc.

Kantor, C. (2010). Children’s Imaginative Play: A Descriptive Psychology Approach. In K. E. Davis, F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.9. (pp. 257-285). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Kirsch, N. (1982). Attempted suicide and restrictions in the eligibility to negotiate personal characteristics. In K. Davis and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 2, (pp. 249-273). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Lasater, L. (1983). Stress and health in a Colorado coal mining community. In K. Davis and R. Bergner (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 3 (pp.95-117). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Lasater, L. (1988). Recovery from compulsive behavior: How to transcend your troubled family. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications.

Latham, C.A. (1990). A High Power – Low Power Account of Gender Differences in Self-Criticism. In K.E. Davis, (Ed.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 5 (pp. 237-259). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Lubuguin, F.S.A. (1998). The acculturation of culturally displaced persons. In H.J. Jeffrey and R.M. Bergner, (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 7, (pp. 1627-233). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Lugbuguin, F. (2010). Teaching culturally competent psychotherapy: A Descriptive Psychology approach. In K. E. Davis, F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.9, (pp. 41-85). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Marshall, K. (1985). Scenarios of “alcoholic” relationships. In K. Davis and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 4, (pp. 259-278). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Marshall, K.M. (1992). A bulimic life pattern. In M.K. Roberts, & R.M. Bergner, (Eds.). Clinical Topics: Contributions to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Adolescent-Family Problems, Bulimia, Chronic Mental Illness, and Mania. Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 6, (pp. 257-269). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Orvik, J.M. (1992). The dropped out: Redescribing chronic mental illness as a question about communities. In M.K. Roberts, & R.M. Bergner, (Eds.). Clinical Topics: Contributions to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Adolescent-Family Problems, Bulimia, Chronic Mental Illness, and Mania. Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 6, (pp. 271-297). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Ossorio, P. G. (1987). Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia LRI Report No. 39a. Boulder, CO: Linguistic Research Institute.

Ossorio, P. G. (1987). Projective Techniques LRI Report No. 38a. Boulder, CO: Linguistic Research Institute.

Ossorio, P.G. (2013). Seminar on Clinical Topics. Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio (Vol. VII). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Ossorio, P. (1985/1997). Pathology. In P. Ossorio (Ed.), The collected works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. 2. Essays on clinical topics, (pp. 1-70). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press. [Originally published in K. Davis and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology (Volume 4, pp. 151-200). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Ossorio, P. (1985/1997). The collected works of Peter G. Ossorio, Vol. 2. Essays on clinical topics, (pp. 1-70). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press. [Originally published in K. Davis and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology (Volume 4, pp. 151-200). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Ossorio, P. G., Aylesworth, L., & Lasater, L. (1977). A Comprehensive Plan for the
Provision of Mental Health Services to the Vietnamese Refugees in Denver. LRI Report No. 21. Boulder, CO: Linguistic Research Institute.

Ossorio, P.G. (1977, 2014). Seminar on Positive Health and Transcendental Theories. The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio (Vol. VIII). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Roberts, M.K. (1992). On the Outside Looking In: A Conceptualization of Adolescence. In M.K. Roberts, & R.M. Bergner, (Eds.). Clinical Topics: Contributions to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Adolescent-Family Problems, Bulimia, Chronic Mental Illness, and Mania. Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 6, (pp. 79-105). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Roberts, M.K. (1992). Companions of Uncertain Status. In M.K. Roberts, & R.M. Bergner, (Eds.). Clinical Topics: Contributions to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Adolescent-Family Problems, Bulimia, Chronic Mental Illness, and Mania. Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 6, (pp. 33-77). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Roberts, M.K. (1992). Psychotherapy with adolescents and their families: A status dynamic approach. In M.K. Roberts, & R.M. Bergner, (Eds.). Clinical Topics: Contributions to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Adolescent-Family Problems, Bulimia, Chronic Mental Illness, and Mania. Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 6, (pp. 235-256). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Roberts, M.K. (2010). An accomplice’s tale. In K. E. Davis, F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.9, (pp. 161-190). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Sapin, C.R. & Forward, J.R. (1990). A status dynamic formulation of sex roles: Putting sex roles in their place. In K.E. Davis, (Ed.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 5, (pp. 215-236). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Schwartz, W. (1979). Degradation, Accreditation, and Rites of Passage. Psychiatry, 42(2), 138-146.

Schwartz, W. (1988). What makes something psychoanalytic? Psychiatry, 51, 417-426.

Schwartz, W. (2008). Presentations of self and the status dynamics of psychotherapy and supervision. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 62, 51-65.

Torres, W.J. & Bergner, R.M. (2010). Humiliation: Its nature and consequences. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law, 38, 195–204

Torres, W.J., & Bergner, R.M. (2012). Severe public humiliation: Its nature, consequences, and clinical treatment. Psychotherapy Theory Research Practice Training, 49, 492-501

Wechsler, R. (1992). Personality and Manic States: A Status Dynamic Formulation of Bipolar Disorder. In M.K. Roberts, & R.M. Bergner, (Eds.). Clinical Topics: Contributions to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Adolescent-Family Problems, Bulimia, Chronic Mental Illness, and Mania. Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 6, (pp. 203-233). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Wechsler, R.C. (2013). Trauma concepts: A descriptive psychological formulation of the nature of trauma and its consequences. In K.E. Davis, R.M. Bergner, F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz, (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.10, (pp. 149-174). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.

Vanderburgh, J. (1985). The positive-health developmental model of treatment and psychopathology. In K. Davis and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 4, (pp. 281-302). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Zeiger, C.A. (1992). The Miss Marple model of psychological assessment. In M. Roberts and R. Bergner, (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology, Vol. 6. Clinical topics: Adolescent-family problems, bulimia, chronic mental illness, and mania (pp. 159-183). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press.