Here, leaders in clinical psychiatry and psychology assess ideas that
are central to the work of David Shapiro, and important to the field.
Through dialogue, elaboration and clarification a deeper understanding of the field, and Shapiro's contribution emerges.
Craig Piers, Ph.D. is Director of Education and Training in the psychological counseling service at Williams College, and formerly, Associate Director of Admissions and a senior supervising psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center. Dr. Piers frequently presents his work nationally and his published articles and book chapters have addressed personality disorders and assessment, psychotherapeutic impasse, suicide and complex systems theory. Dr. Piers is co-editor (with John Muller and Joseph Brent) of Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems (Aronson, 2007), an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and serves as a reviewer for several other professional journals.