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About Farrell Silverberg:
Farrell Silverberg, Ph.D., N.C.Psy.A. is a clinical psychologist and a nationally certified psychoanalyst working in Philadelphia where he lives with his wife and two children. He trained in New York at the Institute for Modern Psychoanalysis and was the first Western student of Taopsychotherapy master Rhee Dong-shik in Seoul, Korea.
Silverberg has lectured internationally and has published in journals in the United States and in Asia. He began integrating pyschoanalysis and Eastern thought thirty years ago, and his papers on the combined technique include Therapeutic Resonance (1988), Resonance and Exchange in Contemplative Psychotherapy (2008), and The Way to Treat is to Be (Forthcoming). Silverberg is currently a Supervising and Training pyschoanalyst at the Philadelphia School of Pyschoanalysis.
Always pushing the envelope, Silverberg has four current interests: Creating a user-friendly self-applied form of psychoanalysis to help the lay public and make psychoanalysis a household word, integrating psychoanalysis with indigenous (shamanistic/spiritual) medicine; working towards an integrative psychology/psychiatry to promote the combined and coordinated uses of many modes of treatment to promote mental health; and as an outspoken advocate of survivors of child abuse, Dr. Silverberg takes on the trendy notions of "forgiveness," integrates the continuums of morality and mental health, dismisses the excuses used by perpetrators, and is committed to raising the dignity of survivors, both in his clinical practice and other forums.
In addition to his professional publications, Silverberg has accomplished the Herculean task of distilling psychoanalytic concepts into accessible language for the lay public and posits a guided self-exploration of the unconscious mind in his breakthrough book Make the leap: A practical guide to breaking the patterns that hold you back. The President of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists praised Make the Leap as "a book I never thought I would see: A general self-help book based on the principles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy...The steps are as simply and clearly explained as any book I've seen on cognitive behavioral strategies for change." His SUBGAP notion, introduced in this book, has been nominated for the prestigious 2007 Grawemeyer award for the best ideas in psychology.
Forthcoming publications include Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Depression: Positing Psychotherapy Factors that "Bring Spring" to the Depressed Patient (In Press) in which Silverberg systematically challenges the current psychiatric "practice guidelines," shows that psychotherapy is at least the equal of medication if not better, promotes the use of integrative mental health treatment with close coordination between practitioners from different disciplines (including alternative medicine) and helping the patient become a competent "case manager" for himself or herself.
Also In Press, is his 2007 textbook chapter on Using Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Psychotherapy: The psycho-spiritual healer as mediator between two realms . Silverberg again crosses barriers and posits that there is indeed a "non-ordinary" reality that is greater and more interconnected than ordinary reality, and goes so far as to suggest exactly how accessing information from this reality, formerly the domain of indigenous shamans, can be done in a safe and scientific manner to enhance the psychotherapist's ability to heal the patient, including use of the shamanic-based "exchange of self for other."
Having served in hospitals and clinics over the years, Silverberg is currently a Supervising and Training psychoanalyst at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis, has a private practice in Rittenhouse Square and continues to write and teach.
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