David Allen M.D.

David M. Allen is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and was the Director of Psychiatric Residency Training at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis for 16 years. He received his medical degree from U.C. San Francisco, and did his psychiatric residency at the Los Angeles County - University of Southern California Medical Center. While at UT, he supervised psychotherapy training for both psychiatry residents and psychology interns, and ran the psychotherapy seminar for the residents. The seminar was described in a journal article in Academic Psychiatry. He has done research into personality disorders and is a psychotherapy theorist. He is the author of three books about integrated psychotherapy: A Family Systems Approach to Individual Psychotherapy, Deciphering Motivation in Psychotherapy, and Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients: an Integrated Approach, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is also the author of the self-help book, Coping with Critical, Demanding, and Dysfunctional Parents.  He is a former associate editor of the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration and treasurer for the Association for Research in Personality Disorders. Over his career, he has practiced psychotherapy in a variety of clinical settings including private and academic practice and at a VA hospital. His psychotherapy model has particular applications in the treatment of borderline personality disorder.