1979    Ph.D. University of California at
            Los Angeles - Counseling Psychology

1965    M.S.W. University of Southern California
            School of Social Work

1957    B.A. University of California at Los
            Los Angeles - Major in Psychology

Society For Clinical Social Work
American Psychological Association
   Division of Psychoanalysis
California Psychological Association
American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Research Analyst
The American Family Therapy Association
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
The American Group Psychotherapy Association
Board of Directors, International Experiential Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Assn.
California Psychoanalytic Society
SEPI

Solomon, M and Tatkin, S. (2010) “Love and War In Intimate Relationships.”  New York: W. W. Norton

Fosha, D., Siegel, D., and Solomon, M. (in Press), “The Healing Power Of Emotion. New York, W. W. Norton

Solomon, M. and Tatkin, S. (In Press)  “Love and War In Intimate Relationships.  New York, W. W. Norton

Fosha, D., Siegel, D., and Solomon, M. (in Press), “The Healing Power Of Emotion. New York, W. W. Norton

Solomon, M. and  Siegel, D.,  (2003) Healing Trauma.  New York, W. W. Norton

Solomon, M., Neborsky, R., McCullough, L., Alpert, M., Shapiro, F., Malan, D. (2001) Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Change. New York, W.W. Norton.

 

Solomon, M.  and Siegel, J. (1997) Countertransference in Couples Therapy.  New York,
   W. W. Norton.

Solomon, M. (1994).  Lean on Me: The Power of Positive Dependency in Intimate Relationships. New York: Simon and Schuster

Solomon, M. (1989). Narcissism and Intimacy: Love and Marriage in an Age of Confusion.  New York: W.W. Norton.

Grotstein, J., Solomon, M., & Lang, J. (1987). The Borderline Patient: Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Etiology, Psychodynamics, and Treatment.  New Jersey: The Analytic Press.

Solomon, M., (2010) “The Me Nobody Knows: Attachment Repair In Couples Therapy.” In (Ed) Alan Gurman, Cliical Casebook of Couple Therapy. New York: Guilford Press.

“Emotion In Romantic Partners: Intimacy Found, Intimacy Lost, Intimacy Reclaimed.”  In Fosha, D., Siegel, D., and Solomon, M. (in Press), “The Healing Power Of Emotion. New York, W. W. Norton

Solomon, M. (In Press) “Marital Therapy with PTSD Patients,”  (Eds.) Drs. Gil Reyes, Jon Elhai, and Julian Ford,  Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma. New York. Wiley

Solomon, M. (2006)  “How Neuroscience Can Inform Couples’ Therapy,   Family Therapy Magazine,  September-October,  2006,        pp. 24-27.

Solomon, M. (2006) Book Review of  “Dealing With Resistance in Psychotherapy, American Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Solomon, M. (2003) “Attachment, Disruption, Repair,” in Solomon, M. and  Siegel, D.,(Eds.), Healing Trauma.  New York, W. W. Norton

Solomon, M. (2002), “The Dream in a Tavistock Group,” in C. Neri, M. Pines, and R. Friedman, (Eds.), Dreams in Group Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique, London: Jessica Kingsley Publisheers.

 

Solomon, M. and Lynn, R. (2002) “Object Relations Couple Therapy, (Eds. Florence Kaslow and Magnatita)  “Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Volume 1 – Psychodynamic/Object Relations.” New York, Wiley

Neborsky, R. and Solomon, M. (2001)  “Attachment Bonds and Intimacy: Can The Primary Imprint of Love Change?” In M. Solomon, et al., “Short Term Therapy For Long Term Change, New York, W. W. Norton

Solomon, M. (2001)  “Breaking The Deadlock of Marital Collusion.” In M. Solomon, et al., “Short Term Therapy For Long Term Change, New York, W. W. Norton

Solomon, M. (1997) Narcissists as partners.  In Elsa Ronningstam (Ed.) Narcissistic Personality Disorder, New York, American Psychiatric Press.

Solomon, M. (1997) Treating narcissistic and borderline relationships. In  J. Carlson (ed.) The Disordered Couple, New York, Brunner /Mazel.

Solomon, M. (1997).  On love and lust in the countertransference.  Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.  25:1, Fall, pp.  .

Solomon, M. (1996).  Understanding and treating couples with borderline disorders. In F. Kaslow (Ed.) Relational Diagnosis and Dysfunctional Family Patterns.  New York: John Wily & Sons, Inc. 

Solomon, M. (1996) Self Psychology and Couples Therapy.  In A. Goldberg (ed.) Progress In Self Psychology: Vol.XII. New Jersey: The Analytic Press.

Solomon, M. (1994).  Narcissism and intimacy: Treating the wounded couple.   The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families.  2:2,  April, pp. 104-113.

Solomon, M., and Weiss, N. (1992).  Integration of Daniel Stern's developmental theory into a model of couples therapy. Clinical Social Work.  20:4, Winter,  pp. 124-137.

Solomon, M. (1991).  Narcissistic vulnerability in marriage.  Journal of Couples Therapy. Vol 1, no. 3/4 pp. 25-38.

Solomon, M. (1988).  Treatment of narcissistic vulnerability in marital therapy.  In A. Goldberg (Ed.) Progress in self psychology: Vol. IV.  New Jersey: The Analytic Press. pp.   215-230.

Solomon, M. (1988).  Self psychology and Marital Relationships.  International Journal of Family Psychiatry. Vol.9, No. 3  pp. 211-226.

Solomon, M. (1987). The application of psychodynamic theories to the nonanalytic treatment of borderline disorders.  In J. Grotstein, M. Solomon, & J. Lang (Eds.) The Borderline Patient : Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Etiology, Psychodynamics, and Treatment.  New Jersey: The Analytic Press.

Solomon, M. (1985). Treatment of narcissistic and borderline disorders in marital therapy:     Suggestions toward an enhanced therapeutic approach.  Clinical Social Work, 13(2), 141-156.

2000-Present            Senior Extension Faculty 
            UCLA Extension - Health Sciences, Humanities
            Sciences and Social Sciences
1974 - Present            UCLA Extension - Health Sciences, Humanities,Sciences and Social Sciences Program Consultant /Coordinator of Psychological
Training Programs
1971-Present            Private Practice and Supervision    of Individual, Group and Couples’ Therapy
1978-Present            Director of Clinical Training
The Lifespan Learning Institute – California Psychological Association, Approved MCEP Provider, Los Angeles, California
1995 - 2001            Professor, American Behavioral Studies Institute,  Los Angeles
1981 - 1995            UCLA – Coordinator of Mental Health Training Programs, Department of Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences           
1978 - 1984            Parent Education Consultant - Family therapist
                        Beverly Hills Unified School District           
1970 - 1973            Field Work Instructor—UCLA Social Work Students
                        University of California, Los Angeles           
1969 - 1975            Psychological Consultant—Parent - Child Issues
                        Park Century School, Santa Monica, CA
1972 - 1975            Adjunct Clinical Professor
                        Department of Legal Psychiatry
                        Neuropsychiatric Institute
                        University of California, Los Angeles
1968 - 1970            Field Work Instructor—USC Social Work Students
                        University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1967 - 1968            Family Therapy Program
                        San Fernando Valley Juvenile Hall
1966 - 1967            One year sabbatical in Paris, France
                        Studied French Psychoanalysis at the Sorbonne
1965 - 1966            Intake Officer - Family Treatment Program
                        Las Palmas School for Girls
1960 --  1965            Investigation of Adolescents For Juvenile Court
                        Los Angeles County Probation Department
1957 – 1960            Child Placement
                        Los Angeles County Probation Department

2008 Erikson Institute
“Countertransference, Intersubjectivity and
The Therapist’s Use of Self in Treatment”

2007  CAMFT – Los Angeles
       “Self Psychology and Couples’ Therapy”

2006    Psychotherapy Networker, Washington DC
            “Lean On Me”“

2005      Monterey Family Therapy Association
              “Treating Problems of Relationships

2005     SCSW 
              “Attachment, Brain and Mind in Couples’ Therapy

 

2004      Psychotherapy Networker West
        Early Attachment Issues In Couples Therapy

2004      Aviva Center, Keynote Speaker,
      “Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship”

2003            American Association of Family Therapy
“Attachment Theory and Affective Neurosciences in Couples’ Therapy”

Austin Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology
“Narcissism and Intimacy”

2002            Los Angeles Group Psychotherapy Association
            Countertransference and the Self Of The Therapist

2000            Young Presidents Organization-“Raising Financially Responsible             Children

2007      “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy”
2007      “The healing Power of Emotion”
2006     “The Embodied Mind”
2005    “How Psychodynamic Psychotherapies Change The mind and the Brain”      
2004    “Family Perspectives On Borderline Personality Disorders
2004    “Traumatic Attachments and Borderline Personality Disorders
2003    “New Developments In Attachment Theory”
2002    “Attachment Theory and Affective Neuroscience in Clinical Action
2002    “Attachment: From Early Childhood Through The Lifespan
            University Of California, Los Angeles
2001    “Anatomy Of Intimacy”
            University Of California, Irvine
2000            “Healing Trauma” -  The 2000 Cutting Edge Conference,             University of California, San Diego
1999            “Short Term Therapy For Long Term Change” – The 1999             Cutting Edge Conference, University of California, San             Diego
1999            “The Primitive Unconscious in Men and Women”: Toward             a Dynamic Theory of Couple’s Relationships
            “The Core Relationship Problem-Developmental and Clinical Issues”
1998            "Understanding and Treating Trauma”: Developmental and             Neurobiological Approaches
 “Addictions and The Injured Self”
1997            "Short Term Therapy for Long Term Change"
            “EMDR In The Treatment of Trauma”