Publications
RESEARCH UPDATES
ISTDP RESEARCH OVERVIEW JULY 24 2024
Research Update 1: Trial Therapy
Research Update 2: Cost-Effectiveness July 2020
Research Update 3: STDP/EAET somatic table update Feb 21 2024
Research Update 4: Severe Mental Disorders updated 2020
CHRONIC, COMPLEX and REFRACTORY CASES Updated Jan 2023
Anxiety Disorders update Mar 2024
COURSE HANDOUTS
Canadian Armed Forces Medical Slides January 2023
June 1-3, 2022 Immersion Fragile Character Structure Handout
Algorithm based on Reaching through Resistance Chapters
ARTICLES
SEE OVER 100 of Allan’s Articles at Google Scholar LINK HERE
ISTDP and ECT Abbass Bains 2010
Identifying and Managing Emotional Contributors to Somatic Symptom Presentations: in press
Idealization and Devaluation as Barriers to Psychotherapy learning
Video ISTDP during Covid in press
Cooper et al Family Med MUS paper 2017
Effectiveness of the ISTDP Trial Therapy 2017
ISTDP for Pseudoseizures: Pilot Cost-effectivenss Study 2016
The Emergence of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Treatment Resistant Patients: ISTDP 2016
Sustained Cost Benefits of ISTDP for Patients with Psychotic Disorders. Psychiatry Research, 2015
Long-term healthcare cost reduction with ISTDP. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2015
Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders (Cochrane Review 2014)
Review of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Neuroimaging Studies
The Cost-Effectiveness of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Residency Training in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Methods and Cost-Effectiveness
Effective Care of Treatment-Resistant Patients in an ISTDP-Based In-Patient Treatment Program
Key Clinical Processes in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Review of the Treatment Method and Empirical Basis
Meta-analysis of ISTDP outcome studies in Harvard Reviews of Psychiatry
Randomized Controlled Trial of ISTDP for Patients with Personality Disorders
Web-Conference Supervision for Advanced Psychotherapy Training: A Practical Guide
Emotional Influences in Patient Safety
Alexithymia and Treatment Preferences among Psychiatric Outpatients
How doctors feel: affective issues in patients’ safety
Direct Diagnosis and Management of Emotional Factors in Chronic Headache Patients
A Naturalistic Study of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Trial Therapy
Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy of Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Pilot Study
The Cost-Effectiveness Of Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy 2003
Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders
Raised Consciousness About Emotions And Health (2005)
The Case For Specialty-Specific Core Curriculum On Emotions And Health (2004/2005)
TRAINING RESOURCES
Idealization/devaluation paper, 2004
Chapter on Learning issues Draft v 2.1
ISTDP Adherence Scale ver 1.5 August 2018
Allan Abbass Interview from book “Id to Intersubjectivity”
Chapter 17 Severe Fragile Character Structure
Fall 2022 Fragile Course Handout
Video: Didactic Portions of the June 2022 Immersion on Fragile Character Structure
Recognizing and handling one’s own defenses: Emptiness, Different Drum Scott Peck