Leigh McCullough, Ph.D
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Leigh McCullough is Director of the Research Institute at Modum Bad Psychiatric Center in Vikersund, Norway, outside of Oslo. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts), where she co-teaches a course on Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and co-directs the Psychotherapy Research Program. She is also Director of Research of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association and Co-Director of the Trondheim Psychotherapy Research Program where she is involved in an extensive analysis of videotaped psychotherapy to identify mechanisms of change.
Dr. McCullough was the 1996 Voorhees Distinguished Professor at the Menninger Clinic and received the 1996 Michael Franz Basch Award from the Silvan Tomkins Institute for her contributions to the exploration of affect in psychotherapy. She is the author of several books, including Changing Character ( Basic Books 1997) and Treating Affect Phobia (Guilford 2002), as well as many papers in peer-reviewed journals. Her writing focuses on psychotherapy process research and the theory and practice of short term dynamic psychotherapy. More information on research and training can be found on her websites, www.affectphobia.com and www.leighmccullough.com. (The latter site is in development.)
In her copious spare time, she loves to read, garden, hike in Norwegian woods, lie on beaches in the Mediterranean and sip French wine in Provence, but she loves most of all what Italians call ‘Il dolce far niente,' the sweetness of doing absolutely nothing.
The Research Institute at Modum Bad in springtime.
