J. Christopher Muran

Dr. J. Christopher Muran is Dean and Professor at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, where he previously served as program director for its doctoral program in clinical psychology.

Dr. Muran has published extensively on changes in the self and the therapeutic relationship and has presented on the national and international stage. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and served on APA's Advisory Steering Committee for Clinical Practice Guidelines; he is past president of the international Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) and past editor of its journal Psychotherapy Research. He has also served on several editorial boards and has received distinguished career awards for his research from SPR and the National Register.

Since 1990, Dr. Muran has been Director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City. The program has been supported in part with grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and has become a center for the study of the therapeutic relationship with a specific focus on the study of ruptures in the therapeutic alliance & the development of intervention models & training regimens to facilitate their resolution. He is also on faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the New York University Postdoctoral Program.