John Christopher Muran

John Christopher Muran graduated cum laude from The Hotchkiss School in 1980 and Hamilton College in 1984. He completed a doctorate in combined professional-scientific psychology at Hofstra University in 1989.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/style/dr-elisa-ventur-to-wed-in-february.html|title=Dr. Elisa Ventur to Wed in February|date=November 3, 1991|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-11-23|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://libweb.hofstra.edu:2082/record=b1444531~S1|title=A confirmatory factor analysis of irrational language in clinical and nonclinical samples|last=Muran|first=J. Christopher|date=1989|publisher=Hofstra University}} He also completed postdoctoral training in cognitive therapy at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (University of Toronto) in 1990 and in psychoanalysis at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in 1998.{{Cite web | url=https://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0502 | title=John Christopher Muran | Faculty Profiles | Adelphi University}}

He is Dean at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, where he holds the appointment of full professor and served as training director for the doctoral program in clinical psychology (2009-2021). He is also Principal Investigator of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel{{Cite web|url=https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/beth-israel/care/psychiatry|title=Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Mount Sinai Beth Israel|access-date=2018-11-06}} (since 1990), which has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health,{{Cite web|url=https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=7365161&icde=42199152|title=Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results|last=generator|first=metatags|website=projectreporter.nih.gov|language=en|access-date=2018-11-27}} and is on faculty at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.{{Cite web | url=https://icahn.mssm.edu/education/residencies-fellowships/list/msbi-clinical-psychology-internship | title=MSBI Clinical Psychology Internship | Icahn School of Medicine}}

Muran's work has concentrated on the following topics: psychotherapy integration and difference, therapeutic relationship and therapeutic alliance, therapist position and experience, treatment impasse and failure, performance under pressure, theories on self, and intersubjectivity.{{Cite web|url=https://derner.adelphi.edu/au_news/j-christopher-muran-ph-d-perfecting-the-art/|title=J. Christopher Muran, Ph.D.: Perfecting the Art|website=derner.adelphi.edu|date=2 December 2014 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/academics/colleges/hclas/psy/phdcp/phdcp-ir-winter2013.pdf|title="SCHARE"ING COGNITIONS: ON PHDS AND PUBLICATIONS}}  He has published over 175 papers and 10 books, including Therapist Performance under Pressure (2020; with Catherine Eubanks), The Therapeutic Alliance (2010; with Jacques Barber), Dialogues on Difference (2007), Self-Relations in the Psychotherapy Process (2001), and Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance (2000; with Jeremy Safran).{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Muran|title=John Christopher Muran {{!}} Ph.D. {{!}} Adelphi University, New York {{!}} AU {{!}} Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies|last=Ph.D|first=John Christopher MuranAdelphi University {{!}} AU · Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies 45 17 ·|website=ResearchGate|language=en|access-date=2018-11-26}}

Muran is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (since 2007){{Cite web|url=http://fellows.apa.org/?_ga=2.73720466.1626463164.1547828905-1237166990.1481231530|title=APA Fellows|website=fellows.apa.org|access-date=2019-01-18}} and serves on its Advisory Steering Committee for Clinical Treatment Guidelines.{{Cite web|url=https://www.apa.org/about/offices/directorates/guidelines/steering-committee.aspx|title=2018 Members|website=Advisory Steering Committee for the Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines|access-date=2019-01-18}} He is past-president of the international Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR){{Cite web|url=https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/page/105|title=Past Presidents - Society for Psychotherapy Research|website=www.psychotherapyresearch.org|access-date=2018-11-06}} and past-editor of its journal Psychotherapy Research.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=tpsr20&|title=Psychotherapy Research|website=www.tandfonline.com|language=en|access-date=2018-11-06}} He has also served on several editorial boards, including Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology and Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice. He has received other recognitions and honors for his accomplishments, including APA's [https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/members/awards-and-grants/distinguished-psychologist-award-contributions-psychology-psychotherapy/ Distinguished Psychologist Award for Contributions to Psychology and Psychotherapy], National Register's [https://www.nationalregister.org/2021-wellner-research-award-muran/ Alfred M. Wellner Lifetime Achievement Award for Research Excellence] and SPR's [https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/page/SPRAwards Senior Distinguished Career Award].{{Cite web|url=https://www.hotchkiss.org/alumni/notable-alumni/notable-alumni-search|title=Alumni Accomplishments - The Hotchkiss School|website=www.hotchkiss.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-06}} He also held the Horst Kächele visiting professorship at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin during its winter semester 2022–23.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipu-berlin.de/ipu-welcomes-new-guest-professor-j-christopher-muran/| title=IPU welcomes new Guest Professor J. Christopher Muran| date=17 October 2022}}

Muran married clinical psychologist Elisa Denise Ventur in 1992 with whom he has a son Andrew Christopher Muran.{{Cite web | url=https://cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=48189&path=msquash | title=Andy Muran - 2018-19 Men's Squash - Cornell University}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/2020/feb/14/churchill-student-no-1-seed-squash-varsity/| title=Churchill Student No. 1 Seed in Squash Varsity| date=14 February 2020}}

• Muran, J.C. & Eubanks, C.F. (2020). Therapist Performance under Pressure: Negotiating Emotion, Difference & Rupture. APA Books (Italian translation).
• Muran, J.C., & Barber, J.P., eds. (2010). The Therapeutic Alliance: An Evidence-Based Guide to Practice. Guilford Press (Italian translation).
• Muran, J.C., ed. (2007). Dialogues on Difference: Diversity Studies on the Therapeutic Relationship. APA Books.
• Muran, J.C., ed. (2001). Self-Relations in the Psychotherapy Process. APA Books.
• Safran, J.D. & Muran, J.C. (2000). Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide. Guilford Press (Spanish & Italian translations).

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