Dr. Vera Békés is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She studied clinical psychology and philosophy at Eötvös Lóránt University in Budapest, and she received her clinical psychologist training, as well as her PhD in the Psychoanalysis Doctoral Program at University of Pécs, Hungary. She completed postdoctoral research fellowships at McGill University and at Université du Québec á Montréal, and she continued working at McGill University as Research Associate at the Psychiatry Department, Faculty of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty of Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology Dr. Békés worked as a researcher and clinical supervisor at Université Laval in Québec City, QC. She gained clinical experience at psychiatric wards (Jewish General Hospital in Montreal and Kútvölgyi Hospital in Budapest) as well as in private practice.
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Prof. Perry obtained his M.D. degree at Duke University in 1974, completed psychiatric residency at The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA and then research fellowship training at Harvard Medical School. He left his faculty position as Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Hospital in 1992 and joined the faculty at McGill University at Jewish General Hospital. He has been Director of Research in Psychiatry at JGH and is currently Director of Psychotherapy Research and Director of the Douglas Utting Fellowship Program for Studies in Depression.
Prof. Perry has a number of research interests that are often combined in studies. His interest in specific diagnoses has included the nosology, psychopathology, course, and treatment of personality disorders, and depression. He has a special interest in the process of recovery from suicidality. Throughout his career he has devised useful assessment methods of observable clinical phenomena to which clinicians attend in psychotherapy. These include the assessment of defense mechanisms, motives (wishes & fears), conscious and unconscious conflicts, coping patterns, and cognitive errors. Click here for more information on Prof. J. Christopher Perry. |
Prof. Zuroff is a professor of psychology at McGill University and one of the world’s most productive clinical psychology researchers. His internationally-recognized work on the influence of personality factors on vulnerability to depression and treatment outcomes has been published in highly respected journals around the world, has been cited thousands of times, and has significantly impacted various areas of psychology, namely clinical, social, and personality. In addition to his many achievements in research, Prof. Zuroff has helped shape McGill’s psychology department through 30 years in administrative roles and has proven himself an outstanding teacher and mentor to his students, many of whom themselves are now successful researchers and academics. His intellectual rigour and creativity is inspirational to many, and his generous support of other researchers and clinicians exemplifies his leadership in the field.
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Dr. Katie Aafjes-van Doorn is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Clinical Psychology Program of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She received a MSc in Clinical Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, as well as a MSc in Psychological Research and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from University of Oxford. Over the years, she has worked clinically in different settings within the National Health Service, in the UK as well as at a psychoanalytic community clinic in San Francisco. Most recently, Dr. Aafjes-van Doorn completed a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Derner Institute for Psychological Services, Adelphi University.
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Dr. David Dunkley, is a Senior Researcher with the Lady Davis Institute and SMBD Jewish General Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Member of Psychology at McGill. He was trained in clinical psychology at McGill University, receiving his Ph.D. in 2001. He then pursued postdoctoral training in longitudinal diagnostic assessment of psychiatric disorders at Yale University from 2001-2003, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in psychotherapy studies in depression at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital (ICFP-JGH) from 2003-2004. The primary goal of Dr. Dunkley’s research has been to examine the mechanisms through which perfectionism is a personality vulnerability factor to depression. He has received numerous fellowships and investigator awards, obtained grants from federal and provincial agencies, and published several articles in respected journals using structural equation modeling/path analysis and multilevel modeling as the primary data analytic techniques. In 2005, he received the Canadian Psychological Association President’s New Researcher Award.
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Dr. John R.Z. Abela received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. He was a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, from 2008 until his sudden death in 2010. Previously he was a clinical faculty member in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at McGill University, and Director of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Clinic at Montreal Children's Hospital. During his relatively short career, Dr. Abela made considerable contributions to the field of Child & Adolescent Psychology, particularly with his studies examining vulnerability factors and depression in youth. He received the Young Investigator Award from NARSAD in 2000 and again in 2003 and received the Young Psychologist Award at the XXVII International Congress of Psychology in July 2000.
*deceased |