Extending the Plan Formulation Method to an object relations perspective: Reliability, stability, and adaptability.

This study tested (a) the reliability and stability of the Mt. Zion Plan Formulation Method (PFM), a system for deriving psychodynamic formulations, when applied in a new setting, and (b) PFM's adaptability to a different theoretical perspective. Five Rutgers University clinicians were trained in using PFM in conjunction with Fairbairnian object relations theory, which stresses dependency and separation anxiety as central dynamic issues, rather than Mt. Zion's cognitive-psychoanalytic theory, which emphasizes guilt over leaving or surpassing others