Jon G. Allen, Ph.D.

Clinical Professor, Voluntary Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine

Jon G. Allen, Ph.D., holds the position of Clinical Professor as a member of the Voluntary Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is a member of the honorary faculty at the Houston Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and the adjunct faculty of the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center. He retired from clinical practice as a senior staff psychologist after 40 years at The Menninger Clinic, where he taught and supervised fellows and residents; conducted psychotherapy, diagnostic consultations, and psychoeducational programs; and led research on clinical outcomes. He continues to teach, write, and consult. His books include Trusting in Psychotherapy, Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma with Plain Old Therapy, Mentalizing in Clinical Practice (with Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman), Coping with Trauma: From Self-Understanding to Hope, and Coping with Depression: From Catch-22 to Hope, all published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Additional books are Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma (Karnac) and Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders (Wiley).