Jon G. Allen
Jon G. Allen, Ph.D., is the Helen Malsin Palley Chair in Mental Health Research; Professor of Psychiatry in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine; and Senior Staff Psychologist in The Menninger Clinic, Houston, Texas.
Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorder
Mental, physical, or sexual abuse in close personal relationships commonly results in trauma that is very different from the trauma of accidents, illness, or war. Little is more intellectually... (more)
Contemporary Treatment of Psychosis: Healing Relationships in the 'Decade of the Brain'
Despite early optimism, drugs did not cure schizophrenia. Treatment of psychotic illness on the biological level is not sufficient. Based on the approach of the Menninger clinic, this book affirms... (more)
Coping with Trauma: Hope Through Understanding
From the psychological perspective, the author discusses the impact of trauma on emotion, memory, the self, and relationships, as well as incorporating research from neuroscience to make the case... (more)
Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment
Pioneering research has been carried out over the last decade on mentalization and the promotion of mentalizing capacity - the ability to interpret the behavior of oneself and others as based on... (more)
Coping with Depression: From Catch-22 to Hope
Distilling years of experience in educating psychiatric patients and their families about depression, Jon Allen has written a practical book that addresses the challenges depressed patients face on... (more)
Mentalizing in Clinical Practice
Mentalizing, the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental states such as thoughts and feelings, is the basis of healthy relationships and self-awareness. A growing... (more)
Mentalizing in the Development and Treatment of Attachment Trauma
This book brings together the latest knowledge from attachment research and neuroscience to provide a new approach to treating trauma for therapists from different professional disciplines and... (more)
Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma with Plain Old Therapy
The book provides a conceptual framework for treating trauma patients and illuminates relationship factors that are empirically associated with positive outcomes. Patients who have suffered broken... (more)
Trusting in Psychotherapy
Trusting in Psychotherapy is an important book that fills a lamentable void: although virtually everyone-therapists, students, and patients alike-believes that trust is the foundation of... (more)