Linda C. Gilbert, Ph.D.

P.O. Box 351084
Los Angeles, CA 90035

Phone: (310) 701-0636

E-Mail: lcgchild@yahoo.com

Website: www.lindacgilbertphd.com

• Private Practice
• Public Practice
• Adults
• Adolescents
• Children

Specific Area of Focus:

• Adult psychotherapy
• Infant through adolescent assessment

My professional foci, on adult psychotherapy and infant through adolescent psychological assessment, are based on the same basic factors, my interest in people, personality, and psychotherapeutic change. A good psychological assessment measures areas of developmental maturity, temperament and neuropsychological, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional functioning. It can be completed in approximately 30 hours from first contact to the presentation of a completed report. The results are always interesting and they sometime lead to positive change. As an ISTDP psychotherapist I can find out as much about a person in 30 hours as I can through psychological testing, the work is always interesting, and for the patient who actively works those 30 hours positive change has always been the result.

- Core training with Dr. Neborsky completed in June of 2007

- Additional formal training with Josette ten Have-de Labjie, Psy.d. and Habib Davanloo, M.D. ISTDP is an evolving psychotherapy which requires continuous training through different modalities. In addition to the training described above, I have attended numerous seminars, conferences and week-long summer trainings, have successfully applied the techniques of ISTDP to children and adolescents in a clinic setting, have had my work professionally viewed and supervised outside of training, have written two articles for the Ad Hoc, presented classes in ISTDP, and supervised the work of others. Currently as Director of Training for the Southern California Society of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy I intend to continue to expand my own knowledge for ISTDP while increasing training opportunities for others.

Publications:

• Gilbert, Linda C., Ph.d., Working with a Patient whose Bipolar II Disorder was Mistaken for a Major Depressive Disorder; Ad Hoc Bulletin of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy; Volume 12, Number 1, April 2008; 5-21.

• Gilbert, Linda C., Ph.d; Applying ISTDP Techniques to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy; Ad Hoc Bulletin of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy; Volume 8, Number 3, September 2004; 5-25.

• Dissertation completed at the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Chessplayers: Gender Expecations or Self-Fulfilling Prophesy ;

• Multiple citations regarding chess and gender research, most notably in Newsweek magazine (1989) and most recently in the book Chess Bitch Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport by Jennifer Shahade; Siles Press, Los Angeles; 2005.

Affiliations:

• Southern California Society for Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy;
  
• International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association;
  
• Los Angeles County Psychological Association