David M. Allen

David M. Allen, M.D. is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and the former Director of Psychiatric Residency Training at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He has done research into personality disorders and is a psychotherapy theorist. He is the author of three books for psychotherapists, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters, and is a former associate editor of the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. He received his medical degree from U.C. San Francisco, and his psychiatric residency at the Los Angeles County - University of Southern California Medical Center.

Dr. Allen is interested in looking at commonalities within different schools of thought regarding psychotherapy, neurobiology, personality, family relationships, and culture. His psychotherapy model is called Unified Therapy, a treatment designed to alter dysfunctional relationship patterns between adults and their primary attachment figures which he believes trigger and reinforce repetitive self-defeating and self-destructive behavior patterns, with particular applications to the condition known as borderline personality disorder.