Christopher Christian, PhD, ABPP
Psychologist/Psychoanalyst
New York / New Haven

Publications
Christopher Christian, Alice Fiorini Bincoletto, Rachele Mariani, Attà Negri, Vittorio Lingiardi and Annalisa Tanzilli (in press). Specificities of Mental Functioning and Referential Process in Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A single case study using the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2). Journal of of Psycholinguistic Research.​
Negri A, Mariani R, Tanzilli A, Fiorini Bincoletto A, Lingiardi V, Christian C. (2024). A Single Case Multimethod Assessment to Detect Significant Changes in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders. Journal of Personality Assessment, 26:1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2312978
​Negri, A. and Christian, C. (2022). Changes in Clinical Process as a Result of Online Therapy: Findings from a Single Case Study. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 50 (4), 659–671. https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2022.50.4.659
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Negri, A., De Bei, F., Christian, C., Rocco, D. (2022). Relationship between countertransference and emotional communication in the counselling process. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 10(3). ​
Mariani, R., Monaco, S., Christian , C., and Di Trani, M. (2021). Dreaming in quarantine: linguistic analysis of referential process of dreams during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 24(2).
https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.537​
Christian, C., Barzilai, E., Nyman, J., and Negri, A. (2021). Assessing key linguistic dimensions of ruptures in the therapeutic alliance. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 143–153 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09768-1​
Negri. A., Andreoli, G., Barazetti, A., Zamin, C., and Christian, C. (2020). Linguistic Markers of the Emotion Elaboration Surrounding the Confinement Period in the Italian Epicenter of COVID-19 Outbreak, Front. Psychol., 18 September 2020 |
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568281.
​Dent, L. and Christian, C. (2019). The Shifting Prevalence of Conflict in Psychoanalytic Literature: A Brief Report of a Corpus-Based Text Analysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 36(2), 184–188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pap0000220
Negri, A., Christian, C., Mariani, R., Belotti, L., and Andreoli, G., and Danskin, K.. (2019). Some Important Linguistic Features of the Therapeutic Alliance in the First Session. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, Vol., 22.,
https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.374 ​
Christian, C. (2015). Conflict Theory and Intersubjectivity. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32, 608-625. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pap0000011
Christian, C. (2015). Punti di convergenza tra teoria del conflitto e intersoggettivita nella psicoanalisi contemporanea (Points of convergente between conflict theory and intersubjectivity in contemporary pychoanalysis). Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, XLIX, (2), 201-220.​
Harris, A., Lichtenstein, D., and Christian, C. (2015). To Whom Does the Subject Speak? Between the Relational and Lacanian Schools of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation with Adrienne Harris and David Lichtenstein, Moderated by Chris Christian. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 229-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2015.1107445
Christian, C., Hoffman, L., Bucci, W., Crimins, M. and Worth, M. (2010). Symbolization and Emotional Engagement in Mothers’ Reports of Child Care Activities. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 7(1), 22-39.​
Christian, C. (2009). The Piano Teacher: A Case Study in Sadomasochism. The Psychoanalytic Review, 96, 774-786.
Christian, C. (2007). Sibling loss, guilt and reparation: A case study. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88, 41-54.
Christian, C. and Jurist, E. (2001). The relevance of psychoanalytic ideas to crisis work. The Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 3, 1-25.​
Friedman, R. C., Bucci, W., Christian, C., Drucker, P., and Garrison, B. III (1998). Private psychotherapy patients of psychiatrist psychoanalysts. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 1772 -1774.