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John Markowitz

John C. Markowitz is an American physician, a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. For several decades he has conducted research on psychotherapies and medications as treatments for mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders, and more recently posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He is most widely published in the area of interpersonal psychotherapy or IPT, a manualized form of treatment, in which he was trained by the late Gerald L. Klerman, M.D. Dr. Markowitz is a graduate of Columbia University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and received his psychiatric residency training at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic of Cornell University Medical School/New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

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John C. Markowitz (born 1954 in New York City) is an American physician, a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. For several decades he has conducted research on psychotherapies and medications as treatments for mood disorders (major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder), anxiety disorders, and personality disorders, and more recently posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).1 He is most widely published in the area of interpersonal psychotherapy or IPT, a manualized form of treatment, in which he was trained by the late Gerald L. Klerman, M.D.234 Dr. Markowitz is a graduate of Columbia University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and received his psychiatric residency training at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic of Cornell University Medical School/New York-Presbyterian Hospital.5

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  1. Markowitz JC: Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780190465599
  2. Markowitz JC: Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Dysthymic Disorder. Washington: American Psychiatric Press, 1998 ISBN 0-88048-914-6; 2004 pbk edition.
  3. Weissman MM, Markowitz JC, Klerman GL: Comprehensive Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy. New York: Basic Books, 2000; 2008 ebook edition ISBN 9780786722969
  4. Weissman MM, Markowitz JC, Klerman GL: The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018
  5. "Bookshelf". Columbia College Today. 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-02-12.