About The Series:
The series will consist of informal presentations and discussions regarding a range of concerns of interest to psychotherapists. All presentations start at 9:00AM. Attendance is free. There is a $15 charge to those who need a CEU certificate.
About The Presenter:
Jon G. Allen, Ph.D. served as a psychologist at The Menninger Clinic for 40 years and is currently on the voluntary faculty of the Baylor College of Medicine as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and the Institute for Spirituality and Health. His professional interests include psychotherapy, clinical research, and patient education, with a specialization in trauma in attachment relationships. His books include Coping with Trauma, Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders, Mentalizing in Clinical Practice, and Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma with Plain Old Therapy.
• February 23
The developmental challenges of becoming a psychotherapist, which will employ the presenter’s experience to evoke participants’ reflections
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• March 16
Writing clinical formulations for patients’ use, which will include a general strategy and clinical examples
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• April 13
A relational approach to patients’ religious struggles, which will address the role of patients’ attachment patterns in relation to God or a higher power
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• May 4
Traumatic attachment relationships, which will explicate contributors to infant attachment disturbance that eventuate in adulthood psychopathology
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• June 8
Dissociative disturbance, which will elucidate a distinction between detachment and compartmentalization
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• June 29
Rethinking the unconscious, which will contrast the dynamic unconscious with unconscious processes illuminated by contemporary cognitive neuroscience
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Robert is deeply committed to serving others and is passionate about hope and despair in clinical treatment. With over 20 years in addiction and mental health, he has experience in private practice, clinical supervision, and program management, co-founding The Lovett Center and Ethos. He earned a Master’s degree from the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work, which honored him as a 50 for 50 Alumni in 2019. His education includes fellowships at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and The Menninger Clinic, where he held leadership roles and received the Menninger Clinic Pillar Award for Integrity. The Houston Business Journal recognized him as a 40 Under 40 Class of 2018 Honoree.
