Fielding Graduate University

Areas of Instruction:

• Psychological Assessment
• Personality Assessment
• Cognitive and Intellectual Assessment
• Memory Assessment
• Group Psychotherapy
• Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy
• Social Psychology

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Body Image and Eating Disorders
• Adoption and Attachment
• Impact of Pregnancy on the Therapeutic Process
• Group Psychotherapy
• Aggression and Personality Disorders
• Physical Abuse

• Eating Disorders
• Dissociative Disorders
• Group and Family Therapy

Professional Memberships:

• Alliance for Psychoanalytic Thought
• American Psychological Association (39, 49)
• American Group Psychotherapy Association
• Pennsylvania Psychological Association
• Philadelphia Area Group Psychotherapy Society
• Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
• Society for Personality Assessment
• South Asia American Forum, Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society

Honors and Awards:

• 2005, 2003, 2002, 1993-1999, 1989: Psychiatry Resident Teaching Award, Medical College of Pennsylvania
• 1985: Seymour Rosenberg Memorial Lectureship
• 1975-1978: National Science Foundation Fellowship
• 1974: Phi Beta Kappa
• 1974: Cease Psychology Award, Allegheny College
• 1972-1975: Alden Scholar, Allegheny College
• 1972-1974: Doane Scholarship, Allegheny College

Publications:

• Fallon, A. (in press). Informed consent. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy.
• Schmidt, C. A., Fallon, A. E., & Coccaro, E. F. (2004). Assessment of behavioral and cognitive impulsivity: Development and validation of the Lifetime History of Impulsive Behaviors Interview. Psychiatry Research, 126(2), 107-121.
• Brabender, V., Fallon, A., & Smolar, A. (2004). Essentials of group psychotherapy. New York: Wiley.
• Fallon, A., & Brabender, V. (2003). Awaiting the therapist's baby. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Fallon, A., & Bunce, S. (2000). The case of Kristen: The psychoanalytic perspective. In K. Miller & J. S. Mizes (Eds.), Comparative treatments for eating disorders. New York: Springer.

Professional Experience:

• Doctoral Faculty, School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University.

Other Professional Activities:

• 2003-present: Clinical Associate Professor in Psychiatry (part time), Drexel College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
• 1991-present: Board of Directors, Philadelphia Area Group Psychotherapy Society. 1999-2003: Clinical Associate Professor in Psychiatry (part time), Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA.
• 1987-present: Residency Steering Committee in Psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
• 1983-present: Private Practice (part time), Bala Cynwyd, PA.  
• 1980-1981: Friends Hospital, Philadelphia (APA Approved)
• Past President, Delaware Valley Group Psychotherapy Society.