Allan Abbass

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Dalhousie University

Canada

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Allan Abbass is a Professor at Dalhousie University in Canada. His research primarily focuses on psychotherapy, particularly intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) and its effectiveness in treating depression, anxiety disorders, and related psychological conditions. He has contributed to the development and evaluation of psychological assessment tools and has published extensively on the methodologies and controversies surrounding depression treatment.

Articles (10)

Development and psychometric evaluation of a screening instrument for cognitive perceptual disruption (Copeds) in psychotherapy patients

Year:

2025

Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is the First-Line Option for Depression and Treatment Resistant Depression According to Available Evidence

Year:

2024

Controversies in recommending treatments for depression—A debate

Year:

2024

Contradictions, methodological flaws, and potential for misinterpretations in ranking treatments of depression

Year:

2023

Three sessions of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) for patients with dissociative seizures: a pilot study

Year:

2022

The anger-depression mechanism in dynamic therapy: Experiencing previously avoided anger positively predicts reduction in depression via working alliance and insight.

Year:

2022

Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) offers unique procedures for acceptance of emotion and may contribute to the process-based therapy movement

Year:

2022

Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy provided by novice psychotherapists: effects on symptomatology and psychological structure in patients with anxiety disorders

Year:

2021

Alliance rupture‐repair processes in intensive short‐term dynamic psychotherapy: Working with resistance

Year:

2021

Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for functional somatic disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of within-treatment effects

Year:

2021

Collaborators (3)

Guillermo Perez Algorta

University of Lancaster

UNITED KINGDOM

Christopher Stride

Statistician/Senior Lecturer

University of Sheffield

UNITED KINGDOM

Øystein Sørensen

Associate Professor in Statistics (tenure track)

University of Oslo

NORWAY

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