Jon G. Allen, PhD, holds the position of Clinical Professor as a member of the voluntary faculty in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is an honorary member of the faculty at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston and an adjunct faculty member of the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center. Dr. Allen received his B.A. degree in psychology at the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology at the University of Rochester. He completed postdoctoral training in clinical psychology at The Menninger Clinic. While remaining engaged in education and research, he retired from clinical practice after 40 years at The Menninger Clinic, where he taught and supervised fellows and residents along with conducting psychotherapy, diagnostic consultations, psychoeducational programs, and research on clinical outcomes. In retirement he has continued to teach, provide clinical consultation, and write. He is past editor of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic and a member of the editorial board of Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes. His books include Coping with Trauma: From Self-Understanding to Hope; Coping with Depression: From Catch-22 to Hope; Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma with Plain Old Therapy; Trusting in Psychotherapy and, with coauthors Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman, Mentalizing in Clinical Practice, all published by American Psychiatric Publishing. He is also author of Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders and coeditor, with Peter Fonagy, of Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment, both published by John Wiley and Sons, as well as author of Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma, published by Karnac. His current book (under review) is Bringing Psychotherapy to Life through Caring Connections. He has authored and coauthored numerous professional articles and book chapters on trauma-related problems, psychotherapy, the therapeutic alliance, hospital treatment, and psychological assessment.

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Stern, D. B. (1983). Unformulated experience —From familiar chaos to creative disorder. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 19: 71-99.

Stern, D. B. (2019). Unformulated experience and the relational turn. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 39: 127-135.

Stern, D. B. (2022). On coming into possession of oneself: Witnessing and the formulation of experience. Psychoanalytic Quarterly,91: 639-667.

Stern, D. B. (2023). Interpretation: Voice of the field. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 71: 1127-1148.



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