Allan Abbass

Dr. Allan Abbass (born February 22, 1962) is professor, psychiatrist, and founding Director of the Centre for Emotions and Health[1] at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

Dr. Abbass's clinical specialty and research focus is the use of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP).[2][3] Dr. Abbass's work has focused on the use of emotion-focused psychotherapy to heal medically unexplained physical symptoms.[4][5] Dr. Abbass has developed psychotherapy training programs in ISTDP.[1] Dr. Abbass has published clinical trials on the effectiveness of ISTDP[6] and meta-analyses on the effectiveness of ISTDP.[7]

Dr. Abbass is an Elected Member of the Royal Society of Medicine.[8] In 2001, Dr. Abbass was awarded The Association of Chairs of Psychiatry of Canada Education Award for Excellence in Education.[9] In 2013, Dr. Abbass was Awarded the Douglas Utting Award[10] in Montreal, Canada, in the "Canadian Providing Outstanding Contributions" category, for the recognition and treatment of depression. He was awarded the designation "Distinguished Professor of 2016" by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Psychiatry. He is a visiting Professor of Psychotherapy at the Tavistock in London, UK and university of Derby, UK.

Dr. Abbass has also published on the use of videotape and videoconference for training in short term psychotherapy.[11]

Dr. Abbass has facilitated the development of ISTDP training programs in Australia,[12] Italy,[13][14] Norway,[15] Sweden,[16] Poland,[17] and the UK.[18]

He is an advisory board member on the American Psychological Association's Unified Psychotherapy project,[19] and is on the scientific committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association.[20]

He published his first book, Reaching through Resistance: Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques, in 2015. www.allanabbass.com

References

  1. 1 2 Matthews, Jan (January 2004). "Healing Emotions Saves Health-care Dollars" (PDF). Dalhousie Psychiatry Monitor. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Nadia, Bobak (Spring 2011). "Emotional Rescue" (PDF). Living Health in Atlantic Canada. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Abbass, Allan (2006). "Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders". The Cochrane Library (4): CD004687. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD004687.pub3. PMID 17054212. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Abbass, Allan. "Implementing an Emotion-Focused Consultation Service to Examine Medically Unexplained Symptoms in the Emergency Department" (PDF). Journal of the Academy of Medical Psychology: 44–51.
  5. ↑ Abbass, Allan (2008). "Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy to reduce rates of emergency department return visits for patients with medically unexplained symptoms: preliminary evidence from a pre–post intervention study" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  6. ↑ Abbass, Allan; Sheldon, Albert; Gyra, John; Kalpin, Allen (2008). "Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for DSM-IV Personality Disorders: A Randomized Control Trial" (PDF). The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 196 (3): 211–6. doi:10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181662ff0. PMID 18340256. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  7. ↑ Abbass, Allan; Town, Joel; Driessen, Ellen (2012). "Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Outcome Research" (PDF). Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 20 (2): 97–108. doi:10.3109/10673229.2012.677347. PMID 22512743. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  8. ↑ Royal Society of, Medicine. "Royal Society of Medicine". Royal Society of Medicine. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  9. ↑ Abbass, Allan. "ACPC Award for Excellence in Education". Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  10. ↑ Canadian Psychiatric Association. "Douglass Utting Award". Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  11. ↑ Abbass, Allan; Arthey, Stephen; Elliott, Jason; Fedak, Tim; Nowoweiski, Dion; Markovski, Jasmina; Nowoweiski, Sarah (2011). "Web-Conference Supervision for Advanced Psychotherapy Training: A Practical Guide" (PDF). Psychotherapy. 48 (2): 109–118. doi:10.1037/a0022427. PMID 21639654. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  12. ↑ Melbourne Centre for ISTDP. "Home Page". Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  13. ↑ Italian Development Center Study. "ISTDP". Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  14. ↑ Neuroscience and Communication Group. "Workshop Announcement" (PDF). Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  15. ↑ Nordic Institute for ISTDP. "Home Page". Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  16. ↑ Swedish Association for ISTDP. "Home Page". Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  17. ↑ Carpenter, Joanna. "Psychotherapy for Pain". Politika.pl. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  18. ↑ Redfern, Simon. "Derbyshire Could Champion New Therapy". University of Derby News. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  19. ↑ Unified Psychotherapy Project. "Allan Abbass, Advisory Board". Unified Psychotherapy Project News. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  20. ↑ American Psychoanalytic Association. "Empirical Studies in Psychoanalysis". American Psychoanalytic Association. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
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