Career
He is currently Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, where he served for many years as Director of Clinical Training. He also is a faculty member at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and The Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. In addition he is Past-President of The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
Doctor Safran is known for his contributions in a variety of areas.
His early theoretical work in collaboration with Les Greenberg became the foundation for the development of Emotion-Focused Therapy. He was also an early innovator in the refinement of cognitive theory and practice through his incorporation of principles from interpersonal, and emotion theory and research.
Doctor Safran is also known for his contributions to the field of psychoanalysis, with an important emphasis on the development and refinement of relational psychoanalytic theory and practice. As a psychotherapy researcher, Doctor Safran played a foundational role in launching the field of research on repairing therapeutic alliance ruptures and treatment impasses.
