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	Drew Westen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drew Westen is Professor at the Emory University Psychology and Psychiatry Departments.
		Drew Westen announced at the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference in Palm Springs, California the results of a study in which functional magnetic resonance imaging showed that self-described Democrats and Republicans responded to negative remarks about their political candidate of choice in systematically biased ways.
		Specifically, when Republican test subjects were shown self-contradictory quotes by George W. Bush and when Democratic test subjects were shown self-contradictory quotes by John Kerry, both groups tended to explain away the apparent contradictions in a manner biased to favor their candidate of choice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drew_Westen (567 words)

	UCSD Guardian Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With the help of MRI scanners, Westen, director of clinical psychology at Emory University and lead author of the study, found that when it came to politics, emotional sensors in the brain, rather than the rational part, were most active when Democrats and Republicans with strong beliefs were spurred by political debate.
		Westen admitted in an interview with WBUR that some of the statements in the slide show had been doctored slightly for the purpose of creating a strong contradiction, but researchers presented them as factual.
		Westen further estimated that between 75 percent and 80 percent of the American population is rationally unable to listen to new political information because of pre-determined beliefs, but he added political change is possible after a long amount of time.
	www.ucsdguardian.org /cgi-bin/news?art=2006_02_16_07 (846 words)

	Emory University Expert: Westen
		Drew Westen is director of clinical psychology at Emory University and holds a joint appointment as a professor in the departments of psychology, and psychiatry and behavioral science.
		Westen is available to provide a psychological analysis of political issues, including the psychology of voter behavior and the influence of non-verbal communication on their decision-making.
		Westen has written more than 100 scientific papers and two books, including an introductory psychology textbook now in its third edition.
	www.news.emory.edu /Releases/westen.html (301 words)

	October 30, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Westen will help us to recognize the common ground of our work and the importance of continuing a dialogue between all the competing “camps,” both within and outside our field.
		It is also important to note that Dr. Westen has been one of the more important “public faces” of psychology and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, something that he does with wit and humor in formal venues such as undergraduate textbooks and teaching videos, and as well as informal settings such as National Public Radio.
		Drew Westen is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University.
	www.discoveret.org /aps/Conferences_2004/October_30_2004.htm (635 words)

	Personality Conflicts
		Drew Westen, a psychotherapist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, takes the close-up perspective in treating people whose personalities have gone awry.
		"Westen and Shedler’s personality model is a breath of fresh air, but it needs to be evaluated against other approaches," remarks psychiatrist Robert L. Spitzer of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, who directed the 1980 revision of the manual of psychiatric diagnoses.
		Spitzer is currently coordinating a project aimed at comparing the clinical usefulness of Westen and Shedler’s method with that of the five-factor model and of two other personality measures—one containing four temperament and three character dimensions, the other consisting of 15 personality traits.
	www.wiley.com /college/psyc/huffman249327/resources/news/articles/person13.html (2004 words)

	Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Right Brain + Left Brain = No Brain
		Westen’s exposé, if anything, had the effect of reversing any subliminal persuasion of public opinion in that election, and may be what Westen intended.
		Westen said, adding that these biased judgments occur outside of awareness and are distinct from normal reasoning processes.
		I should have thought someone with Dr. Westen’s credentials would have given some space to explaining these points and weakness in his theory, but he seems silent on it and, instead, focuses on the tiny, unimportant modality of emotional response as if it were a talisman for political fixation and rationalization.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /2006/right-brain-left-brain-no-brain (3849 words)

	Clinician-Researcher Westen Receives First Millon Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Drew Westen, PhD, professor in both the department of psychology and psychiatry and the department of behavioral sciences at Emory University, is the first-ever recipient of the American Psychological Foundation’s (APF) Theodore Millon Award.
		Westen received the award in August at APA’s 2004 Annual Convention in Honolulu.
		As the director of Emory’s clinical psychology program, Westen is both a clinician and an active researcher.
	www.apa.org /apf/westen.html (284 words)

	Transference patterns in the psychotherapy of personality disorders: empirical investigation -- BRADLEY et al. 186 (4): ...
		Westen, D. and Muderrisoglu, S. Reliability and validity of personality disorder assessment using a systematic clinical interview: evaluating an alternative to structured interviews.
		Westen, D. and Shedler, J. Revising and assessing Axis II, Part 1: developing a clinically and empirically valid assessment method.
		Westen, D., Shedler, J., Durrett, C., et al (2003) Personality diagnosis in adolescence: DSM–IV axis II diagnoses and an empirically derived alternative.
	bjp.rcpsych.org /cgi/content/full/186/4/342 (3586 words)

	While psychological approaches to the understanding of personality differ in many respects, such as their emphases on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Such is the case between the "prototypical" Freudian psychoanalytical approach as described by Drew Westen (1990) and Walter Mischel’s (1990) social-cognitive approach.
		Westen (1990) valiantly (defensively?) attempts to refute this assertion by his presentation of a body of empirical findings that ostensibly support the psychoanalytic approach.
		At one point, Westen even uses Mischel’s research on gratification delay in children (Mischel, Ebbeson, and Zeiss, 1972, as cited in Westen, 1990, p.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/1150/psych5.html (1370 words)

	Westen World Wide Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Drew Westen is Associate Professor of the Harvard Medical School and Chief Psychologist at the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		The following video clips come from "Is Freud Really Dead?", an address given by Drew Westen while he was a member of the University of Michigan's psychology department.
		As the winner of the first Golden Apple Award, an excellence-in-teaching award voted upon by the entire student body, Drew Westen was asked to present his ideal "last lecture." The segments found below have been pulled from a tape of this presentation.
	www.wiley.com /college/psyc/westen240494/student/drew.html (272 words)

	Drew Westen, 'The scientific status of unconscious processes: is Freud really dead?' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ironically, at a time when the prestige of psychoanalysis is at low ebb in both psychiatry and academic psychology, an explosion of experimental research from a number of quarters in psychology—much of it conducted by researchers with little interest in, or knowledge about, psychoanalysis—has now documented conclusively that Freud was right in this central tenet.
		WESTEN, D. Toward a clinically and empirically sensible theory of motivation.
		WESTEN, D. Toward a clinically and empirically sensible theory of thinking, Part 1: From cognitive neuroscience and connectionism to conflict and compromise.
	www.psychomedia.it /rapaport-klein/westen99.htm (13616 words)

	Is This Column Futile?, Dick Meyer On Science And The Limits Of Political Argument - CBS News
		At Emory University, psychologist Drew Westen and his team conducted what they believe is the first study of "the neural basis of any form of political decision making." They did this by using brain imaging to study people as they processed political information during the 2004 campaign.
		Westen says the answer is clearly no, that research does demonstrate that centrists or independents are more able to process rational and non-emotional political information.
		But Westen's MRIs show that is clearly not the case with political contradictions processed by a partisan brain.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/11/20/opinion/meyer/main584753.shtml (1034 words)

	Right Brain + Left Brain = No Brain
		Last week, Drew Westen of Emory University announced the results of a study conducted before the 2004 election, which examined the brains of George Bush and John Kerry supporters.
		Drew Westen thinks he’s found scientific proof that Republicans are irrational?
		Westen’s, because they’ll do whatever it takes to regain political power.
	www.strike-the-root.com /61/morris/morris2.html (1001 words)

	Assessing adolescent personality pathology -- Westen et al. 186 (3): 227 -- The British Journal of Psychiatry
		informants (Westen and Muderrisoglu, 2003; Westen and Weinberger, 2004).
		Durrett, C. and Westen, D. The structure of axis II pathology in adolescents: A factor- and cluster-analytic investigation.
		Dutra, L., Campbell, L. and Westen, D. Quantifying clinical judgment in the assessment of adolescent psychopathology: reliability, validity, and factor structure of the Child Behavior Checklist for Clinician-Report.
	bjp.rcpsych.org /cgi/content/full/186/3/227 (3771 words)

	Neuromarketing » The Neuroscience of Political Marketing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In late January, Drew Westen of Emory University announced the results of a brain scan study of how political messages are viewed by partisan voters.
		Voters closer to the middle, though, will process this information in at least a partially rational manner (including, of course, judging the credibility of any claims), and may be swayed in one direction or the other.
		Westen’s findings won’t affect campaign strategies in the least, inasmuch as they more or less confirm what political pros have known all along.
	www.neurosciencemarketing.com /blog/articles/the-neuroscience-of-political-marketing.htm (820 words)

	Perspectives in Abnormal Psychology (Detailed Description) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Beginning with the assertion that there are "no facts" in the study of psychology, Professor Drew Westen reveals the intriguing and varied ways that psychologists have explained reality.
		For much of this century, we have accepted that Freud was to the mind what Newton had been to the physical universe, having mapped the topography of the psyche and having explained the movement of the forces within it.
		As brilliant a lecturer as he is a clinician, Professor Westen has been honored for his extraordinary teaching ability at every level of his profession.
	www.teach12.com /ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/658.asp (408 words)

	Late Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Westen is a clinical psychologist in private practice treating adolescents, adults, and couples in Newton, Massachusetts.
		Westen is also adjunct assistant professor at Boston University where she does clinical supervision.
		She is a clinical instructor at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry where she is on the eating disorders consultation team and teaches a seminar on treating eating disorders from an integrative perspective.
	online.sfsu.edu /~sepi2002/english/news.html (392 words)

	Emory University News Release - primaries
		Drew Westen, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science, on the candidates' behavior:
		Westen is director of clinical psychology and professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Emory, His major areas of research are personality disorders, eating disorders, emotion regulation, unconscious processes, psychotherapy effectiveness and adolescent psychopathology, as well as the psychological analysis of political issues.
		In addition to his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan, he also holds a graduate degree in social and political thought from the University of Sussex in England.
	www.news.emory.edu /Releases/primaries1074867331.html (476 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 84028478 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this book, Drew Westen attempts to cross these boundaries, proposing an interdisciplinary approach to personality, to culture, and to the relation between the two.
		In Part II, Westen offers a view of culture that blends symbolic and materialist modes of discourse, examining the role of both ideals and 'material' needs in motivating symbolic as well as concrete social structural processes.
		Throughout the book, Westen provides reviews of the state of the art in a variety of fields, including personality theory, moral development, ego development, and culture theory.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam022/84028478.html (332 words)

	Emory study lights up the political brain
		Notably absent were any increases in activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain most associated with reasoning (as well as conscious efforts to suppress emotion).
		The investigators hypothesize that emotionally biased reasoning leads to the "stamping in" or reinforcement of a defensive belief, associating the participant's "revisionist" account of the data with positive emotion or relief and elimination of distress.
		Coauthors of the study include Pavel Blagov and Stephan Hamann of the Emory Department of Psychology, and Keith Harenski and Clint Kilts of the Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-01/euhs-esl012406.php (791 words)

	Clinton still has subliminal appeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As former President Clinton takes center stage this week, Drew Westen has some advice for John Kerry: Don't worry about being upstaged, and don't distance yourself from Clinton, because his charisma could bring you victory.
		Westen, a psychologist at Emory University, reached this conclusion after a series of experiments inspired by the controversial "rats" commercial shown in the 2000 presidential election.
		They denied trying to use the subliminal advertising techniques that had aroused popular fears in the 1950s, when one researcher asserted that he increased sales at a drive-in by flashing subliminal messages on the screen.
	www.ocregister.com /ocr/2004/06/20/sections/news/focus_politics/article_141132.php (411 words)

	Althouse: Can Clinton help us love Kerry?
		The expert is Drew Westen, a psychologist at Emory University, and the specific Kerry concern addressed is Clinton's charisma, which is going to shine upon us for the next week or month or so.
		Professor Westen says no, based on experiments inspired by the commercial, shown in the 2000 Presidential campaign, that momentarily flashed the word "rats" on the TV screen:
		Clinton because of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Professor Westen said, in their hearts they still like him.
	althouse.blogspot.com /2004/06/can-clinton-help-us-love-kerry.html (718 words)

	USATODAY.com - Freud: So wrong and yet so right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As the 150th anniversary of Sigmund Freud's birth approaches on Saturday, mental-health experts consider his legacy mixed: A seminal thinker, Freud was far ahead of his time with some ideas but dead wrong on others.
		Freud invented the concept of the unconscious, his most important idea to stand the test of time, says Drew Westen, a psychologist at Emory University who has studied the Viennese analyst's contributions.
		But, says Westen, Freud was the first to see this key influence.
	www.usatoday.com /news/health/2006-05-03-freud_x.htm (819 words)

	Mixing Memory: Motivated Reasoning I: Hot Cognition
		Fortunately, both the popular press and bloggers have given me plenty of material, by writing about research by Drew Westen on motivated reasoning in politics (a few of the dozens of contributions by bloggers, none of which I recommend, can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
		What the participants in the study are actually doing, according to Westen, is using the "hot" reasoning system, a system that is not exclusive to political partisans, and is not exclusive to political reasoning.
		Before turning to that work (in the next post), though, I want to say a little bit about the neuroscience of the hot and cold systems, because their study is an imaging study.
	mixingmemory.blogspot.com /2006/03/motivated-reasoning-i-hot-cognition.html (2163 words)

	Higher Education::Psychology: Brain, Behavior & Culture, 3rd Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Active Learning Edition of Drew Westen's Psychology, offers students a new way to learn psychology and instructors a new way to teach it.
		Renowned for its clear and engaging voice, Drew Westen's Psychology is well-respected for its comprehensive, current, accurate, and understandable coverage of topics in psychology.
		The Third Edition features three new pedagogical tools to involve students in the subject matter, to help them understand the connections between different topics in psychology, and to encourage them to think actively and critically about what they are learning.
	he-cda.wiley.com /WileyCDA/HigherEdTitle.rdr?productCd=0471227315 (177 words)

	DSPP Bulletin: March 2001
		DSPP members will then be treated to Dr. Drew Westen's unique speaking style during our Spring Workshop on March 24th.
		Westen will examine the psychoanalytic perspective and the efficacy of the more traditionally defined "empirically validated therapies."
		Westen has long been a sophisticated advocate, in academic as well as clinical circles, for the validity of psychoanalytic thinking.
	www.dspp.com /bulletin/mar01.htm (733 words)

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