Fisher, H., Jaffe, N. M., Pidvirny, K., Tierney, A. O., Vaidean, M. S., Dongre, P., & Webb, C. A. (2026).
Language-based detection of depression with machine learning: Systematic review and meta-analysis.npj Digital Medicine, 9. doi:10.1038/s41746-026-02448-1
Fisher, H., Jaffe, N. M., Pidvirny, K., Tierney, A. O., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Webb, C. A. (in press).
Using natural language processing to track negative emotions in the daily lives of adolescents.Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. doi:10.1037/abn0001150
Palermo, E. H., Fisher, H., Blank, J. M., Anderson, C., Bogdanov, M., Steinberger, D. C., Long, Y., Nowicki, G. P., Smith, G. W., Webb, C. A., Kuhn, M., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2026).
Characterizing emotion dynamics in remitted depression: A network approach using ecological momentary assessment.Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, 14, 100182. doi:10.1016/j.xjmad.2026.100182
2025
Fisher, H., Fatimah, H., Pidvirny, K., Brown, H., Balkind, E., Pastro, B., & Webb, C. A. (2025).
Affect dynamics in adolescent depression: Are all equilibria worth returning to?Emotion, 25(8), 1972–1981. doi:10.1037/emo0001545
Fisher, H., Pidvirny, K., Jaffe, N. M., Tierney, A. O., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Webb, C. A. (2025).
Emotion rigidity in adolescents prospectively predicts future depressive symptoms assessed via self-report and clinical interview.Behaviour Research and Therapy, 193, 104818. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2025.104818
Fisher, H., Jaffe, N. M., Rahimi-Eichi, H., Forbes, E. E., Pizzagalli, D. A., Baker, J. T., & Webb, C. A. (2025).
Measuring activation during behavioral activation therapy: A proof-of-concept study using smartphone sensors and LLM-derived ratings in adolescents with anhedonia.NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 3. doi:10.1038/s44277-025-00045-w
Webb, C. A., & Fisher, H. (2025).
Tracking psychopathology dimensions through passive smartphone sensing — Promises, pitfalls, and pathways to clinical integration.JAMA Network Open, 8(7), e2519054. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.19054
Fisher, H., Sened, H., Falkenström, F., Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Watson, J., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2025).
Reliability and validity of the Emotional Processing Self-Report.Psychotherapy, 62(2), 191–207. doi:10.1037/pst0000575
Webb, C. A., Hilt, L. M., Swords, C. M., Bolt, D. M., Fisher, H., & Goldberg, S. B. (2025).
Ecological momentary assessment as a measure of intervention change: Evaluation in 4 digital mental health trials.Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27, e69297. doi:10.2196/69297
Wang, L., Zhou, N., Jaffe, N. M., Pidvirny, K., Tierney, A. O., Fisher, H., Morfini, F., Forbes, E. E., Pizzagalli, D. A., Cai, T., & Webb, C. A. (2025).
Multimodal prediction of future depressive symptoms in adolescents.BMC Psychiatry, 26, 21. doi:10.1186/s12888-025-07665-8
2024
Fisher, H., Reiss, P. T., Atias, D., Malka, M., Shahar, B., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2024).
Facing emotions: Between- and within-sessions changes in facial expression during psychological treatment for depression.Clinical Psychological Science, 12(5), 840–854. doi:10.1177/21677026231195793
Fisher, H., Stone, S. J., Zilcha-Mano, S., Goldstein, P., & Anderson, T. (2024).
Integrating exploration and prediction in computational psychotherapy science: Proof of concept.Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1274764. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1274764
Zilcha-Mano, S., Keefe, J. R., Fisher, H., Dolev-Amit, T., Veler-Poleg, N., & Barber, J. P. (2024).
Is the use of interpretations associated with treatment outcome? A systematic review and meta-analytic answer.Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 31(1), 1–13. doi:10.1037/cps0000158
Grossman-Giron, A.*, Fisher, H.*, Atzil-Slonim, D., Maoz, H., Nitzan, U., & Tzur Bitan, D. (2024).
The effect of oxytocin administration on patient-therapist alliance congruency: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Psychotherapy Research, 34(8), 1092–1102. doi:10.1080/10503307.2023.2269300*equal contribution
Fisher, H. (2024).
One cannot leave a place until one has arrived at it: Working with emotions in psychotherapy.Sihot/Dialogue: Israel Journal of Psychotherapy, 38, 284–287. [Hebrew]PDF
2023
Fisher, H., Solomonov, N., Falkenström, F., Shahar, B., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2023).
Therapists' oxytocin response mediates the association between patients' negative emotions and psychotherapy outcomes.Journal of Affective Disorders, 338, 163–170. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2023.06.013
Zilcha-Mano, S., Fisher, H., Dolev-Amit, T., Keefe, J. R., & Barber, J. P. (2023).
A systematic review of the association between interpretations and immediate, intermediate, and distal outcomes.Psychotherapy, 60(3), 266–282. doi:10.1037/pst0000479
2022
Zilcha-Mano, S., & Fisher, H. (2022).
Distinct roles of state-like and trait-like patient–therapist alliance in psychotherapy.Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(4), 194–210. doi:10.1038/s44159-022-00029-z
Berko, A., Bar-Sella, A., Fisher, H., Sobolev, M., Pollak, J. P., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2022).
Development and evaluation of the HRSD-D, an image-based digital measure of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression.Scientific Reports, 12, 14003. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-18434-y
Deres-Cohen, K., Lipsitz-Odess, I., Fisher, H., Ramseyer, F. T., Lutz, W., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2022).
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression.Psychotherapy Research, 32(4), 470–483. doi:10.1080/10503307.2021.1966542
2021
Zilcha-Mano, S., Shahar, B., Fisher, H., Dolev-Amit, T., Greenberg, L. S., & Barber, J. P. (2021).
Investigating patient-specific mechanisms of change in SET vs. EFT for depression: Study protocol for a mechanistic randomized controlled trial.BMC Psychiatry, 21, 287. doi:10.1186/s12888-021-03279-y
Zilcha-Mano, S., Dolev-Amit, T., Fisher, H., Ein-Dor, T., & Strauß, B. (2021).
Patients' individual differences in implicit and explicit expectations from the therapist as a function of attachment orientation.Journal of Counseling Psychology, 68(6), 682–695. doi:10.1037/cou0000503
Lipsitz-Odess, I., Fisher, H., Kartaginer, O., Leibovich, L., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2021).
When less is more: The perception of psychotherapy techniques as a function of patient personality disorder.Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94(4), 929–951. doi:10.1111/papt.12347
Levi, E., Fischer, S., Fisher, H., Admon, R., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2021).
Patient and therapist in-session cortisol as predictor of post-session patient reported affect.Brain Sciences, 11(11), 1483. doi:10.3390/brainsci11111483
2020
Fisher, H., HaCohen, N., Shimshi, S., Rand-Lakritz, S., Shapira, K., Tuval-Mashiach, R., & Zilcha-Mano, S. (2020).
Ability to move between self-states and emotional experiencing and processing as predictors of symptomatic change.Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 93(4), 723–738. doi:10.1111/papt.12256
Fisher, H., Rafaeli, E., Bar-Kalifa, E., Barber, J. P., Solomonov, N., Peri, T., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2020).
Therapists' interventions as a predictor of clients' emotional experience, self-understanding, and treatment outcomes.Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(1), 66–78. doi:10.1037/cou0000377
Flückiger, C., Rubel, J., Del Re, A. C., Horvath, A. O., Wampold, B. E., Crits-Christoph, P., ... Fisher, H., et al. (2020).
The reciprocal relationship between alliance and early treatment symptoms: A two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis.Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(9), 829–843. doi:10.1037/ccp0000594
2019
Fisher, H., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T. (2019).
Growth curves of clients' emotional experience and their association with emotion regulation and symptoms.Psychotherapy Research, 29(4), 463–478. doi:10.1080/10503307.2017.1411627
HaCohen, N., Atzil-Slonim, D., Tuval-Mashiach, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., & Fisher, H. (2019).
Multiplicity and mutuality in the transition of patient and therapist's self-states: Comparison of good vs. poor outcome groups.Psychotherapy Research, 29(6), 770–783. doi:10.1080/10503307.2017.1411625
Arnon-Ribenfeld, N., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Silber, Y., Fisher, H., Peri, T., Lysaker, P. H., & Hasson-Ohayon, I. (2019).
Tracing metacognition in psychotherapy: Associations with symptoms of general distress and depression.Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 207(11), 936–943. doi:10.1097/NMD.0000000000001051
Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Fisher, H., Lazarus, G., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Lutz, W., Rubel, J., & Rafaeli, E. (2019).
Therapists' empathic accuracy toward their clients' emotions.Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(1), 33–45. doi:10.1037/ccp0000354
2018
Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Fisher, H., Peri, T., Lutz, W., Rubel, J., & Rafaeli, E. (2018).
Emotional congruence between clients and therapists and its effect on treatment outcome.Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65(1), 51–64. doi:10.1037/cou0000250
2016
Fisher, H., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Rafaeli, E., & Peri, T. (2016).
Emotional experience and alliance contribute to therapeutic change in psychodynamic therapy.Psychotherapy, 53(1), 105–116. doi:10.1037/pst0000041
Book chapters
Zilcha-Mano, S., Fisher, H., Keefe, J. R., Dolev-Amit, T., & Barber, J. P. (in press).
Interpretations.
In C. E. Hill & J. C. Norcross (Eds.), Psychotherapy Skills and Methods that Work. Oxford University Press.
Preprints & under review
Fisher, H., et al.
The poker face tax: Coherence between facial expression and subjective experience as a predictor of depression outcomes in psychological treatment.
Preprint. doi:10.31234/osf.io/4m9g6
Fisher, H., et al.
Caught in the loop: Modeling within-person feedback loops as predictors of depression.
Preprint. doi:10.17605/osf.io/8kr4y
Fisher, H., et al.
Personalized early detection of depression onset using multivariate mobile passive sensing.
Preprint. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8960944
