Jon Allen, Ph.D.
Professor
Menninger Research
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
The Menninger Clinic
2801 Gessner Drive
Houston, TX 77080
Telephone: 713-275-5507
email: jallen@menninger.edu
Education:
University of Connecticut (B.A.)University of Rochester (Ph.D.)
The Menninger Clinic (postdoctoral)
Clinical and Research Interests:
psychotherapy, and psychoeducation, specializing in trauma-related disorders and depression; treatment evaluation and outcomes research
Academic Background and Distinctions:
Jon G. Allen holds the Helen Malsin Palley Chair in Mental Health Research .
He has taught and supervised students at the University of Rochester, Northern Illinois University,
the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, and Washburn University of Topeka.
He is past editor of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, associate editor of the
Journal of Trauma and Dissociation,a member of the editorial board of Psychiatry,
and serves as a reviewer for several professional journals and book publishers.
He is the author of Coping with Trauma: Hope through Understanding and Coping with Depression:
From Catch-22 to Hope published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
He is also author of Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders, published by
John Wiley and Sons, and coauthor of and Restoring Hope and Trust: An Illustrated Guide
to Mastering Trauma, published by the Sidran Institute.
He is also coauthor of Borderline Personality Disorder: Tailoring the Therapy to the Patient and coeditor
of Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Disorders and Contemporary Treatment of Psychosis:
Healing Relationships in the ‘Decade of the Brain. He is also coeditor with Peter Fonagy of the
Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment, published by Wiley.
He has authored and coauthored numerous professional articles and book chapters on
trauma-related problems, depression, psychotherapy, hospital treatment, the therapeutic alliance,
psychological testing, neuropsychology, and emotion.