West Coast Canada Institute for ISTDP

Michael C. Alpert, M.D., M.P.H., received his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of California and his public health degree at Harvard University. He has over thirty-five years’ experience as a practicing psychiatrist. Dr. Alpert is founder of the STDP (Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) Institute of New York and New Jersey. In 1989 he developed AET, Accelerated Empathic Therapy, which emphasized using empathy and self-disclosure to gain access to the experience of emotions.  He one of the founders of the IEDTA (International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association) and is a co-founder of the institute’s listserv. Dr. Alpert has contributed to professional books and journals, among them the International Journal of Short-Term Psychotherapy, the Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, and Psichiatria Pratica. He has devoted his last five years to the development of a new sensation based therapy described in his new book, Sensation Science. Dr. Alpert has offices in New York City and New Jersey.