Publications by Subject

• The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2)
• Forensic Psychology, Children and Divorce, and Parental Alienation Syndrome
• Psychotherapy
• Love and Object Relations
• Ethical Issues
• Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) and Psychodiagnostic Charts

Gordon, R.M.  (2008) An Expert Look at Love, Intimacy and Personal Growth. Second edition. IAPT Press, Allentown, Pa. (chapter 3 Measuring Individual Traits)

Gordon, R. M., Stoffey, R., & Bottinelli, J. (2008). MMPI-2 findings of primitive defenses in alienating parents. American Journal of Family Therapy, 36: 211–228.

Gordon, R.M.  (2007) The Powerful Combination of the MMPI-2 and the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Independent Practitioner, Spring Issue, 84-85.

Moyer, D.M., Gordon, R.M., Ward, J.T. & Burkhardt, B.B. (2006) Characteristics of Successful Fakers Versus Unsuccessful Fakers: Is Empathy, Intelligence, or Personality Associated with Faking PTSD on the MMPI-2? Psychological Reports, 99, 747-750.

Gordon, R.M. (2006) False Assumptions about Psychopathology, Hysteria and the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical Scales. Psychological Reports, 98, 870-872.

Moyer, D., Burkhardt, B., Gordon, R.M., (2002) Faking PTSD from a Motor Vehicle Accident on the MMPI-2. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, Volume 20, Issue 2, 2002

Gordon, R.M. (2001) MMPI/MMPI-2 Changes in Long-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 23, (1 and 2), 59-79.

Gordon, R. M., Stoffey, R., & Bottinelli, J. (2008). MMPI-2 findings of primitive defenses in alienating parents. American Journal of Family Therapy, 36: 211–228.

Gordon, R.M. (2005) The Doom and Gloom of Divorce Research:  Comment on Wallerstein and Lewis (2004).  Psychoanalytic Psychology, 22, 3, 450-451.

Gordon, R.M. (2002) Child Custody Evaluators: Psychologists or Detectives? Pennsylvania, Bar Institute, Mechanicsburg ,  Pa. Summarized in Gordon, R.M.  (2008a) An Expert Look at Love, Intimacy and Personal Growth. Second edition. IAPT Press, Allentown, Pa.  (Chapter 8 Lies and Defenses)

Gordon, R.M. (1998) The Medea Complex and the Parental Alienation Syndrome: When Mothers Damage Their Daughter’s Ability to Love a Man The Mother-Daughter Relationship Echoes Through Time.  Ed. by Gerd H. Fenchel.  Jason Aronson Inc. Northvale, New Jersey. Updated and rewritten in  Gordon, R.M.  (2008a) An Expert Look at Love, Intimacy and Personal Growth. Second edition. IAPT Press, Allentown, Pa. (Chapter 5  Medea and Parental Alienation)

Gordon, R.M. (2010), The Scientific Renaissance of Psychodynamic Therapy (PDT), Pennsylvania Psychologist Quarterly, March, 70,3, 22-23.

Gordon, R.M. (2009 ). Money, Masochism, Narcissism and Indifference, Pennsylvania Psychologist Quarterly, 69,8,10 and 14.

Gordon, R.M. (2009). The Psychodiagnostic Report for Treatment Recommendations. The Pennsylvania Psychologist Quarterly, 69, 3, 17-18.

Gordon, R.M. (2008). Addendum To MMPI/MMPI–2 Changes In Long Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, Issues In Psychoanalytic Psychology Vol. 30, No. 2, p.159.

Gordon, R.M. (2008) I Love You Madly! On Passion, Personality and Personal Growth. Second edition. IAPT Press. Allentown, Pa.

Gordon, R. M. (2008) The Two-Minute Check-in at the Beginning of     Psychoanalytic Group Therapy Sessions. Group Analysis, 41 (4), 366-372.

Gordon, R.M. (2007) I Love You Madly! Workbook: Insight Enhancement about Healthy and    Disturbed Love Relations.  IAPT Press, Allentown, Pa.

Gordon, R.M. (2007) To Wit or Not to Wit: The Use of Humor in Psychotherapy, Pennsylvania Psychologist, 67, 3, 22-24. 

Gordon, R.M. (2003) Towards a Theoretically Individuated and Integrated Family Therapist.  Psychotherapy, Vol. 1, Moscow, Russia 8-4, January Issue (English translation). Updated and rewritten in  Gordon, R.M.  (2008a) An Expert Look at Love, Intimacy and Personal Growth. Second edition. IAPT Press, Allentown, Pa. (Chapter 9 Integrating Theories)

Gordon, R.M. (2001) MMPI/MMPI-2 Changes in Long-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 23, (1 and 2), 59-79.

Gordon, R.M. (1997) Handling Transference and Countertransference Issues with the Difficult   Patient, The Pennsylvania Psychologist Quarterly, February 1997 Also reprinted in The Independent Practitioner, Summer 1998, 18, 3, 147-149

Gordon, R.M. (1982) Systems-object relations view of marital therapy:  Revenge and reraising. Eds., Wolberg, L.R.; Aronson, M., Brunner-Mazel.  Group and Family Therapy.

Gordon, R.M. (1976) Effects of volunteering and responsibility on the perceived value and effectiveness of a clinical treatment.  Journal of Consulting and  Clinical Psychology, 44, 799-801.

Gordon, R.M.  (2008) An Expert Look at Love, Intimacy and Personal Growth. Second edition. IAPT Press, Allentown, Pa.

Gordon, R.M. (2008) I Love You Madly! On Passion, Personality and Personal Growth. Second edition. IAPT Press. Allentown, Pa.

Gordon, R.M. (2007) I Love You Madly! Workbook: Insight Enhancement about Healthy and    Disturbed Love Relations.  IAPT Press, Allentown, Pa.

Gordon, R.M. (2006) Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love and Sexuality: Book Review, in  Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology,28, 2, 85-89.

Gordon, R.M. (2006) What Is Love? A Unified Model of Love Relations, Issues In  Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28,1,25-33.

Gordon, R.M. (1982) Systems-object relations view of marital therapy:  Revenge and reraising. Eds., Wolberg, L.R.; Aronson, M., Brunner-Mazel.  Group and Family Therapy.

Gordon, R.M. (1975).  Effects of interpersonal and economic  resources upon values and the    quality of life.  Dissertation Abstracts International, 36, 3122B.  (University Microfilms No. 75-28, 220). Summarized in Gordon, R.M.  (2008) An Expert Look at Love, Intimacy   and Personal Growth. Second edition. IAPT Press, Allentown, Pa.  (Chapter 1  Love and Happiness)

Gordon, R.M. (2011). Repercussions of a Patient’s Suicide, Pennsylvania Psychologist Quarterly, 71,6, 12-14.

Gordon, R.M., Hoffman, L., and Tjeltveit, A (2010). Religion and Psychotherapy: Ethical Conflicts and Confluence, Pennsylvania Psychologist, 70, 9, 3-4.

Gordon, R.M. and Bottinelli, J. (2008), Ethics and the Difficult Patient: The Psychopath in Film and in Your Office. The Pennsylvania Psychologist Update, July/August Issue,10. 

Gordon, R.M., (2007) PDM Valuable in Identifying High-Risk Patients. The National Psychologist, 16, 6, November/December, page 4.

Gordon, R.M. (2006) The APA Ethics Code as a Projective Test. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst,  XXVI, 1, 67-68.

Gordon, R.M. (2005) The Ethics of Supervising a Family Member. The Pennsylvania Psychologist, September Issue, 5-6.

Gordon, R.M. (2003) The Countertransference Controversy. The Pennsylvania Psychologist,

Gordon, R.M. (2000) Boundary: Protection, Limits and Safety. The PennsylvaniaPsychologist, June 2000

Gordon, R.M. (1997) Handling Transference and Countertransference Issues with the Difficult   Patient, The Pennsylvania Psychologist Quarterly, February 1997 Also reprinted in The Independent Practitioner, Summer 1998, 18, 3, 147-149

Gordon, R.M. (1995) The Symbolic Nature of the Supervisory Relationship:  Identification and Professional Growth,  Issues In Psychoanalytic Psychology.  17, 2, 154-162.

Gordon, R.M. (1993) Ethics Based on Protection of the Transference, Issues In Psychoanalytic Psychology, 15, 2, 95 -105.

Bornstein, R. F. and Gordon, R. M. (2012). What Do Practitioners Want in a Diagnostic Taxonomy? Comparing the PDM with DSM and ICD. Division/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, Fall, 6, 35.

Gordon, R. M. (2013) To Know and to Care [Review of: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process, Second Edition By Nancy McWilliams New York, NY: The Guilford Press, 2011] in Division/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, Spring,7, 9-11.

A Psychological Alternative to the Medically Based DSM and ICD Robert M. Gordon, Ph.D. ABPP The National Psychologist May/June 2012, p. 19

Gordon, R.M. (2010). The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM). In I. Weiner and E. Craighead, (Eds.) Corsini’s Encyclopedia of Psychology (4th ed., volume 3, 1312-1315), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Gordon, R.M. (2009). Reactions to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) by Psychodynamic, CBT and Other Non- Psychodynamic Psychologists. Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 31,1, 55-62.

Gordon, R.M. (2008) Early reactions to the PDM by Psychodynamic, CBT and Other psychologists. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, XXVI, 1, Winter, p.13.

Gordon, R.M., (2007) PDM Valuable in Identifying High-Risk Patients. The National Psychologist, 16, 6, November/December, page 4.

Gordon, R.M. (2007) The Powerful Combination of the MMPI-2 and the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Independent Practitioner, Spring Issue, 84-85.