Dr. S. Giac Giacomantonio, Ph.D.
Psychotherapist
EX ANTIQVIS ET NOVISSIMIS OPTIMA

WRITING

2019
Giac is contracted to Oxford University Press to write a psychology textbook, (publication scheduled for 2019).

2016
Understanding the therapist contribution to psychotherapy outcome: A meta-analytic approach,
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 44(5) 664-680, DOI 10.1007/s10488-016-0783-9.

2015
Towards Predicting Prosocial Behaviours: Sex and Age Differences in Music Preferences and Empathy.
Empirical Musicology Review, 10(1), 50-65.

2013
Music Preferences and Empathy: towards predicting prosocial 
behaviors,
Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain, 23(2), 177-186.

On the role of theory and models of change in psychotherapy research,
Psychotherapy in Australia, 19(2), 18-27.

2012
Three problems with the theory of cognitive therapy,
American Journal of Psychotherapy, 66(4), 375-390.

2010
Psychodynamic psychotherapy: The evidence is in,
InPsych, The Bulletin of the Australian Psychological Society, (April, 2010).

2009
Disavowal in cognitive therapy: the view from self psychology,
Psychotherapy in Australia, 15(2), 14-19.

2007
Understanding and explaining therapeutic behaviour: Why do we do what we do?
Self Psychology Newsletter, 1(5), International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.

2005
Psychoanalytic perspectives on substance use and antisocial personality disorder,
Australian Psychologist, 40(2), 137-145.

2003
Restoring balance to psychology curricula,
InPsych, The Bulletin of the Australian Psychological Society, (February, 2003).

Morality, Masochism, and the Market Place.
(unpublished manuscript)


RECENT PAPER PRESENTATIONS
-Inequality, Narcissism, and Nature: Rousseau's Amour-propre and Kohut's narcissism.
-Oral Sadism: A classic revisited.
-The Function of the Orgasm: Reich, Ravel, and Velazquez.


VIDEO INTERVIEW
Dr Giac conducted and recorded this video-interview with Professor Arnold Goldberg of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in the Winter of 2013.


Watch on YouTube.com