John Christopher Muran


John Christopher Muran is an American clinical psychologist and psychotherapy researcher.

Education

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. He also completed postdoctoral training in cognitive therapy at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in 1990 and in psychoanalysis at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in 1998.

Career

He is Dean of the, Adelphi University, where he holds the appointment of full professor and served as training director for the doctoral program in clinical psychology. He is also Principal Investigator of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, which has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, and is on faculty at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In addition, he is on the teaching faculty of the .

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.  He has published over 200 papers and 10 books, including Alliance-Focused Training, Therapist Performance under Pressure, The Therapeutic Alliance, Dialogues on Difference, Self-Relations in the Psychotherapy Process, and Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance.
Muran is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and serves on its Advisory Steering Committee for Clinical Treatment Guidelines. He is past-president of the international Society for Psychotherapy Research and past-editor of its journal Psychotherapy Research. 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, National Register's and SPR's . He also held the Horst Kächele visiting professorship at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin during its winter semester 2022–23.

Personal life

Muran married clinical psychologist Elisa Denise Ventur in 1992 with whom he has a son Andrew Christopher Muran.

Selected works

  • Muran, J.C., Eubanks, C.F., Samstag, L.W., & Macdonald, J.. Alliance-Focused Training: An Evidence-Based Guide to Negotiating Rupture. APA Books.
  • Muran, J.C. & Eubanks, C.F.. Therapist Performance under Pressure: Negotiating Emotion, Difference & Rupture. APA Books.
  • Muran, J.C., & Barber, J.P., eds.. The Therapeutic Alliance: An Evidence-Based Guide to Practice. Guilford Press.
  • Muran, J.C., ed.. Dialogues on Difference: Diversity Studies on the Therapeutic Relationship. APA Books.
  • Muran, J.C., ed.. Self-Relations in the Psychotherapy Process. APA Books.
  • Safran, J.D. & Muran, J.C.. Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide. Guilford Press.