Lorna Smith Benjamin

Lorna Smith Benjamin (born 1934) is an American psychologist best known for her innovative treatment of patients with personality disorders who have not responded to traditional therapies or medications.

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Education

She received a B.A. in psychology from Oberlin College in Ohio, and a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied under Harry Harlow, working with the baby monkeys in his famous "wire mother" experiments.^[1]

Work

Benjamin has practiced as a licensed psychologist in Wisconsin and Utah. She taught at the University of Wisconsin Medical School from 1971 to 1986 and was a professor of psychology at the University of Utah from 1988 until her retirement in 2012.^[2]^[3]

In 1968 she began work on the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB), a method she invented to categorize personality disorders. Originally conceived as a tool for studying primate behavior, SASB was used to understanding personality disorders when they were first described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980.^[1] SASB describes human relationships as fitting along two axes: "love-hate," and "enmeshment-differentiation," with the additional dimension of "interpersonal focus."^[4] Benjamin received an honorary degree from the Umeå University, Sweden, for her work with SASB.^[5]

After many years of work on the SASB model, Benjamin developed Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT), based on SASB. Rather than concentrating on the amelioration of symptoms (except in crisis situations), IRT focuses on identifying the patterns underlying a patient's maladaptive behavior and guiding them toward the formation of new, healthier patterns. SASB is used both to aid patients in understanding problems in their relationships, and to help them conceive of the form that improved relationships would take.^[1]

Benjamin is founder of the Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy Clinic at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Works

Interpersonal Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders (1996, The Guilford Press)
Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy. (2003, The Guilford Press)
Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy for Anger, Anxiety and Depression (2018, The Guilford Press)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c MentalHelp.net. "Personality Disorders". Retrieved 22 June 2012.
^ Smith, Lorna Smith (December 2013). "Complete vitae" (PDF). lornasmithbenjamin.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
^ Smith, Lorna Smith (June 2014). "Professional qualifications and services". lornasmithbenjamin.com. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
^ Benjamin, Lorna Smith. Interpersonal Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders. The Guilford Press, 1996.
^ University Healthcare. "University Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI)". Archived from the original on 30 June 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.

Psychotherapy (list)

Schools

Psychodynamic	Adlerian therapy Analytical therapy Mentalization-based treatment Psychoanalysis Transference focused psychotherapy
Cognitive and behavioral	Clinical behavior analysis Acceptance and commitment therapy Functional analytic psychotherapy Cognitive behavioral therapy Cognitive therapy Dialectical behavior therapy Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy Rational emotive behavior therapy
Humanistic	Emotionally focused therapy Existential therapy Focusing Gestalt therapy Logotherapy Person-centered therapy
Other	Art therapy Dance therapy Feminist therapy Music therapy Narrative therapy Play therapy Reality therapy Systemic therapy Transactional analysis List
Integrative	Eclectic psychotherapy Multimodal therapy Transtheoretical model

Approaches

Research

Techniques

Behaviour therapy	Aversion therapy Chaining Contingency management Shaping Stimulus control Token economy Counterconditioning Desensitization/Exposure therapy Systematic desensitization
Other individual therapy	Autogenic training Biofeedback Clean language Cognitive restructuring Emotion regulation Affect labeling Free association Homework Hypnotherapy Modeling
Group psychotherapy	Co-therapy Couples therapy Family therapy Psychodrama Sensitivity training

People

Philippe Pinel (1745–1826)
Josef Breuer (1842–1925)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
Pierre Janet (1859–1947)
Alfred Adler (1870–1937)
Sándor Ferenczi (1873–1933)
Carl Jung (1875–1961)
Ludwig Binswanger (1881–1966)
Melanie Klein (1882–1960)
Otto Rank (1884–1939)
Karen Horney (1885–1952)
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892–1949)
Fritz Perls (1893–1970)
Anna Freud (1895–1982)
Donald Winnicott (1896–1971)
Wilfred Bion (1897–1979)
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957)
Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980)
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981)
Erik Erikson (1902–1994)
Carl Rogers (1902–1987)
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997)
George Kelly (1905–1967)
Elisabeth Geleerd (1909–1969)
Rollo May (1909–1994)
Virginia Axline (1911–1988)
Carl Whitaker (1912–1995)
Albert Ellis (1913–2007)
Silvano Arieti (1914–1981)
James Bugental (1915–2008)
Joseph Wolpe (1915–1997)
Virginia Satir (1916–1988)
Aaron Beck (1921–2021)
Salvador Minuchin (1921–2017)
Hans Herrman Strupp (1921–2006)
Paul Watzlawick (1921–2007)
Haim Ginott (1922–1973)
Ogden Lindsley (1922–2004)
Arthur Janov (1924–2017)
Eugene Gendlin (1926–2017)
R. D. Laing (1927–1989)
Jean Baker Miller (1927–2006)
Otto F. Kernberg (b. 1928)
Nathan Azrin (1930–2013)
Irvin D. Yalom (b. 1931)
Arnold Lazarus (1932–2013)
Lorna Smith Benjamin (b. 1934)
Marsha M. Linehan (b. 1943)
Vittorio Guidano (1944–1999)
Les Greenberg (b. 1945)
William R. Miller (b. 1947)
Steven C. Hayes (b. 1948)
Michael White (1948–2008)
Jeffrey Young (b. 1950)
Peter Fonagy (b. 1952)

Associations

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