Digby Tantam MA MPH PhD AFBPsS FRCPsych FBACP UKCPF FHEA
Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy
Address:
Centre for the Study of Conflict & Reconciliation,
School of Health and Related Research,
Regent Court,
30 Regent Street,
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Tel:(+44) (0)114 2220786
Fax:(+44) (0)114 2220785
Email: d.tantam@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
These include clinical and epidemiological aspects of Asperger syndrome; self-wounding; wellbeing; the outcome of therapy, particularly existential therapy; emotional processing; empathy; malice and violence; the evaluation of eLearning
Activities and Distinctions
1999 Elected Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society
2003 Honorary life member, Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association
2005 University of Sheffield Senate Teaching Award for life-long teaching achievement
2005 Member, University Senate
2006 Fellow, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
2006 Fellow, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Key publications since 2001
Tantam, D, van Deurzen, E., McHale, E, Pritz,,A., Szafran, W., Zerbetto, R., & Osterloh, K. The Survey of European Psychotherapy Training. 1. Information provided in the National Reports. International Journal of Psychotherapy, 6,142-144, 2001
Tantam, D. National reports on psychotherapy. International Journal of Psychotherapy, 6, Czech republic (with K. Osterloh), 157-159, Denmark, 160-162, Lithuania, 186-188, Sweden, 219-221, 2001
Tantam, D. and van Deurzen, E. Editorial. Introduction to special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health. European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, 4 (3), 2002, 355
Tantam, D., van Deurzen, E., Osterloh, K. The Survey of European Psychotherapy Training 2: questionnaire data. European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, 4 (3), 2002, 379-396
Zerbetto, R. and Tantam, D. The Survey of European Psychotherapy Training 3: What psychotherapy is available in Europe? European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, 4 (3), 2002, 396-406
Tantam, D. Reasons and psychological explanation International Journal of Psychotherapy,7, 165-173, 2002
Milton, J, Duggan, C., Latham, A., Egan, V. and Tantam, D. Case history of co-morbid Asperger's syndrome and paraphilic behaviour. Medicine, Science, and Law, 42, 237-244, 2002
Tantam, D. The challenge of adolescents and adults with Asperger syndrome. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 12, 143-163, 2003
Tantam, D. The flavour of emotions. Psychology and Psychotherapy, 76, 23-45, 2003
Stirling, J., White, C., Lewis, S., Hopkins, R., Tantam, D., Huddy, A. et al. Neurocognitive function and outcome in first-episode schizophrenia: a 10-year follow-up of an epidemiological cohort. Schizophr.Res., 65, 75-86, 2003
Tantam, D. (2004) Fairbairn New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Huband, N. and Tantam, D. (2004) Repeated self-wounding: women's recollection of pathways to cutting and of the value of different interventions Psychology and Psychotherapy, 77, 413-428
Tantam, D. Pathways into adult care. Psychiatry, 4 (9), 141-144, 2005
Tantam, D. Results of a survey of registrants of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling, and Health, 2006
Tantam, D. (2006) Electronic approaches to Psychotherapy 1. Orientation. Electronic devices, the internet, the world wide web;
2. Opportunities and risks. Information, interactivity, open-ness and disembodiment;
3. Machine as therapist: impersonal communication with a machine;
4. Communication with a person via a machine. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, Autumn, 2006
Repeated self-wounding (with Nick Huband), in press, Palgrave
Social psychiatry (with Valerio Falchi), in Oxford Foundations: Training in Psychiatry (eds. P. McGuffin, A. Basu, and J.P. Taylor), to be published by Oxford University Press (a download of an extended first draft is available from this page)
Section
I am Director of the Mental Health Section, Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Reconciliation and Acting Director of Teaching and Learning in ScHARR
Mental Health
Collaborations
Through the Sheffield Bullying Observatory I have collaborations with other academics involved in bullying observatories, with colleagues in education in the University of Manchester and in Sheffield, and with nursing colleagues in Nottingham
ECORN--the existential counselling outcome research network-- involves colleagues in Sheffield (Prof. Emmy van Deurzen), Surrey (Dr. Martin Milton, psychology), Abertay (Dr. John Macleod, psychology) and Strathclyde (Prof Mick Cooper, psychology)
I am also a member of the Sheffield Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy (CWiPP)
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