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.