Expertise
Since 1990, I have directed a research program aimed at the study of the therapeutic relationship –more specifically, the study of ruptures in the therapeutic alliance & the development of intervention models & training strategies to facilitate their resolution.
The research program is currently testing the additive effect of this training in the application of a cognitive-behavioral therapy to a personality disordered population.
The training model is primarily founded on principles from relational psychoanalysis and contemporary theories on emotion regulation and intersubjective communication.
Muran's work has concentrated on the following topics: psychotherapy integration and difference, therapeutic relationship and alliance, therapist position and experience, treatment impasse and failure, performance under pressure, theories on self, identity politics and intersubjectivity.