Allan Abbass

ORCID: 0000-0003-1285-5770
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Research Areas
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Neurology and Historical Studies
  • Child Therapy and Development
  • Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
  • Counseling Practices and Supervision
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment

Dalhousie University
2016-2025

Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
2019

American Psychological Association
2017

Austen Riggs Center
2017

American Psychiatric Association
2017

KU Leuven
2017

University College London
2017

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
2017

MSB Medical School Berlin
2017

University of British Columbia
2017

To assess the current status of psychodynamic therapy (PDT) as an empirically supported treatment (EST), we carried out a pre-registered systematic umbrella review addressing evidence for PDT in common mental disorders adults, based on updated model ESTs. Following this model, focused meta-analyses randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published past two years to efficacy. In addition, reviewed effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and mechanisms change. Meta-analyses were evaluated by at least...

10.1002/wps.21104 article EN World Psychiatry 2023-05-09

Over the past 50 years, intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) has been developed, implemented, and evaluated with respect to treatment of a broad spectrum complex, chronic, treatment-resistant conditions. This therapy was developed specifically treat range patients, including those who are highly defensive, experience repression emotions, have cognitive-perceptual disruptions along primitive defenses. These three groups patients characterized by patterns attachment trauma...

10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20240024 article EN American Journal of Psychotherapy 2025-01-29

This study evaluated the efficacy and long-term effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) in treatment patients with DSM-IV personality disorders (PD). Twenty-seven PD were randomized to ISTDP or a minimal-contact, delayed-treatment control condition. ISTDP-treated improved significantly more than controls on all primary outcome indices, reaching normal ranges both brief symptom inventory (1.51–0.51, p < 0.001) interpersonal problems (1.56–0.67, 0.001). When...

10.1097/nmd.0b013e3181662ff0 article EN The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2008-03-01

The advent of readily accessible, inexpensive Web-conferencing applications has opened the door for distance psychotherapy supervision, using video recordings treated clients. Although relatively new, this method supervision is advantageous given ease use and low cost various Internet applications. This allows periodic from point to around world, with no travel costs long gaps between direct training contacts. permits face-to-face so that learner supervisor can read each other's emotional...

10.1037/a0022427 article EN Psychotherapy 2011-01-01
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