Summer School Faculty
Allan Abbass, MD
Halifax, Canada
Dr Allan Abbass is currently a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director of Psychiatric Education and founding Director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University.
He completed medicine at Dalhousie, Family Medicine at McGill and Psychiatry residency at University of Toronto. He is a leading teacher and researcher in the area of Davanloo’s Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He provides ISTDP training programs to local and International audiences in the area of anxiety, depression, somatic disorders and personality disorders. He has received a number of teaching awards including a national teaching award in Psychiatry. His recent research includes a randomized trial of ISTDP for personality disorders and several systematic reviews including the Cochrane Review of Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for common mental disorders.
Patricia Coughlin, Ph.D Philadelphia, USA
Dr. Patricia Coughlin (Della Selva), Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of clinical experience. In addition to seeing patients in her private practice in Philadelphia, PA, Dr. Coughlin conducts training and supervision groups for mental health professionals around the world. She has held faculty positions at Northwestern University Medical School and Albany Medical College. Currently she is on the faculty at Thomas Jefferson Medical School. Over the past 15 years she has written professionally, given presentations at professional conferences and conducted workshops for mental health professionals around the world. Currently, she is conducting supervision groups and training workshops in California, Washington, DC, Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark.
Her first book, Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique, is considered a classic in the field. Dr. Coughlin’s newest book, Lives Transformed was written in collaboration with Dr. David Malan, and published in 2006 by Karnac Books.
Jon Frederickson, MSW, is co-chair of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. He also teaches ISTDP in Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Italy. He has published over twenty articles and a book, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives.
Allen Kalpin, MD is a medical doctor practicing psychotherapy and providing psychotherapy supervision in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. In addition to his psychotherapy work, he also practices addiction medicine in Toronto. He is past president of the General Practice Psychotherapy Association (GPPA) of Canada, a founder and board member of IEDTA, founder and moderator of the STDP Email Discussion List, and creator and manager of the IEDTA website. Dr. Kalpin does EDT teaching and supervision internationally, and has published many articles on EDT. He is calls his EDT approach (MI-EDT). He is the current president of IEDTA.
Robert J. Neborsky, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Del Mar, California, and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine as well as UCLA School of Medicine (Hon). He is member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the International Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Association. He was a founding member on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (Wiley). He is currently guest editor of the Ad Hoc Bulletin of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. In 2003, Dr. Neborsky was honored by the UCLA School of Medicine clinical faculty association as the Distinguished Psychiatric Lecturer of the year for 2002 .In 2003 he was one of the founders of the Southern California Society for IS-TDP and was elected as president of the society. In 2008 he was appointed a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Neborsky attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he won the Jacob Finesinger Award in Psychiatry. He served his residency at Emory University School of Medicine where he earned the Hope Skobba Memorial Award. He served in the United States Navy as Director of In-Patient Psychiatry at Balboa Naval Hospital. From there he joined the full-time faculty of UCSD School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in charge of emergency services and the medical student clerkship. He briefly served as the Director for all undergraduate education in psychiatry. Along with David Janowsky as co-author, he published significant research on the treatment of acute psychosis with high-dose/low-dose haloperidol, and wrote articles on the combined use of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy in the treatment of depression. In 1981, while training with Dr. Habib Davanloo, he co-founded the San Diego Institute for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. In 2001, he co-authored Short-Term Therapy for Long Term Change (Norton) and is a contributing author in the 2003 book, Healing Trauma (Norton).
Dr. Neborsky’s professional activities include treating patients, training students in the techniques of Attachment-Based variety of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (IS-TDP), presenting at local, national and international symposia, leading three core training groups and writing a textbook book on AB-ISTDP with Josette ten Have de Labije: Roadmap to the Unconscious (Karnac 2010). He is actively researching the interface between attachment theory and psychotherapy.
Josette ten Have-de Labije, PsyD Berlin, Germany
Josette ten Have-de Labije, PsyD is a registered psychologist-psychotherapist and clinical psychologist. She started her career at the department of Neuro and Psychophysiology of the Free University Brussels (teaching and doing psycho-physiological research). She was trained as a behavior and cognitive therapist, as a psychodynamic psychotherapist , working in individual , partner-relation and in group setting. She has a private practice and is teacher and supervisor of ISTDP. She is one of the founders of the Dutch Association for STDP, Chair of the VKDP’s training committee, editor of the Ad Hoc Bulletin of STDP: Practice and Theory, author of several articles and the editor of several books.