About
Richard Erskine
Richard G. Erskine, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and Licensed Psychoanalyst. He is the Training Director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City for 35 years and currently conducts seminars, workshops and training programs in several countries.
Originally trained in Client-Centered therapy with Robert Neville, associate of Carl Rogers, Dr. Erskine also studied Gestalt therapy with both Fritz and Laura Perls. He is a certified clinical Transactional Analyst and a licensed Psychoanalyst who has specialized in inter-subjective psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic self-psychology, and object-relations theory.
His work is an integration of these concepts and fifty years of clinical experience, including working with disturbed children, inmates in a maximum security prison, borderline and narcissistic clients as well as post-traumatic stress and dissociative identity disorders. Recently his research and clinical practice has focused on the treatment of the schizoid process and on the psychotherapy of obsession.
Richard Erskine has formulated a Developmentally-based, Relationally-focused Integrative Psychotherapy, a theory and set of methods that emphasizes affective, cognitive, behavioural and physiological integration while drawing from a synthesis of diverse theoretical concepts. He explains complex theoretical concepts simply and clearly.
Dr. Erskine is former professor at Chicago City College, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois. He is currently Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain. He serves on the faculties of several training institutes in Europe where he conducts comprehensive training programs and provides short courses on Developmentally-based, Relationally-focused Integrative Psychotherapy.
Publications
Richard Erskine has made over 300 Invited Presentations at Professional Conferences. Frequently he is the Keynote Speaker. He is the author of twelve books and scores of articles on psychotherapy theory and methods. His recent books are entitled The Art and Science of Relationship: The Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy (2022, Phoenix/Karnac Books) and
Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process (2023, Phoenix/Karnac Books).
His best-selling book (with Jan Moursund and Rebecca Trautmann) is Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in-Relationship (2023, Routledge Publishing). This book is part of the Classics in Mental Health series). Dr. Erskine is well known for his original book Integrative Psychotherapy in Action published by Sage in 1988 and Karnac Books, 2010. Many of this books have been translated and published in other languages such as German, French, Hungarian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish & Korean and Japanese.
