The Psychiatric Interview

Allan Tasman, MD, is Professor and Chair of theDepartment of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville. Aninternationally known educator and psychoanalyst, he has receivednumerous national and international academic awards. He is thefounding Senior Editor of Psychiatry, an internationallyacclaimed comprehensive textbook. He is past president of theAmerican Psychiatric Association and the Pacific Rim College ofPsychiatrists. He recently completed service as Secretary forEducation of the World Psychiatric Association and now leads theWPA Section on Psychotherapy. Dr. Kay is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatristsand Distinguished Life Fellow of the American PsychiatricAssociation and has served as the chair of the APA Committee onMedical Student Education, the Council on Medical Education andCareer Development, the Vestermark Award Board, and the Committeeon the Practice of Psychotherapy. He chairs the World PsychiatricAssociation Task Force on Undergraduate and Post GraduateCurriculum as well as the APA Committee on College Mental Health.Dr. Kay is the immediate past chair of the Psychiatry ResidencyReview Committee of the ACGME and the Founding Editor of theJournal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research and AssociateEditor of the American Journal of Psychotherapy. He haspublished extensively on the topics of medical and psychiatriceducation, medical ethics, child psychiatry, psychoanalysis,psychotherapy, the neurobiology of psychotherapy, and psychosocialaspects of AIDS and of cardiac transplantation, and has editednumerous books. Dr. Kay serves as the Associate Director of theComprehensive Neuroscience Center at Wright State University. Hereceived the 2001 APA Seymour Vestermark Award for contributions topsychiatric education. Dr. Kay's current research examines fMRI inborderline personality disordered patients with self-harmbehavior.