Robert in the media
Dr. Robert Allan has served as “stress management spokesman” for Weill Cornell/New York-Presbyterian Hospital since his appointment in 1983, appearing on numerous local and national television and radio shows. He had an extensive interview about anger management with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, brought about by the eponymous movie. Allan has been featured on the Today Show, Your Total Health, and This Emotional Life, a PBS/NOVA mini series broadcast in 2010. The Brainwave Festival at the Rubin Museum of (Buddhist and Himilayan) Art featured a lively dialogue between Allan and noted (angry) comedian Lewis Black, entitled Science of Rage. Allan was the most quoted authority in the USA TODAY cover story, Boiling Up With Anger that appeared on November 19, 2009. This past year, Allan was featured on an international satellite broadcast discussing cardiac psychology and anger management with noted physician Deepak Chopra, MD. He has also lectured extensively around the United States, as well as in Canada, Italy, Austria, China, Israel, and Greece.
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For press inquiries, please contact Robert at cardiacpsych@msn.com.
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Allan speaks with Lewis Black on stage at the Rubin Museum
The Rubin Museum's Brainwave Series
May 9, 2009 "You live inside your mind every day, but do you understand how it works? Brainwave, the Rubin’s longest-running program series, investigates how the brain gives rise to the mind from both Eastern and Western perspectives, incorporating philosophy, science, art, and other disciplines. Every spring, a unique theme unifies the Rubin Museum’s programs, including on-stage conversations between neuroscientists and notable personalities, films, and immersive visitor experiences." |
New York Times - When the Heart Pays the Price of Anger
By Robert Allan - June 25, 2009
Not long ago, a patient in a cardiac support group I was leading told of his response to a recent incident: He and a female friend were on the plaza at Lincoln Center after seeing a performance of Verdi’s opera “Il Trovatore” when a car nearly hit the woman. She ran after the vehicle, which was slowly moving away, and slammed the trunk with her rolled up program. The driver emerged from the car hurling expletives in her direction. The patient then hit the driver with his cane. The driver shoved the patient into a fender, at which point, the patient insisted, he had no choice … It was no ordinary cane he was carrying, but a beautiful 19th-century model with a sleek, sharp sword concealed within. He then insisted that the driver “apologize at swordpoint” in front of a small crowd that had gathered. The characters in “Il Trovatore,” he added, proudly brandished swords.
Not long ago, a patient in a cardiac support group I was leading told of his response to a recent incident: He and a female friend were on the plaza at Lincoln Center after seeing a performance of Verdi’s opera “Il Trovatore” when a car nearly hit the woman. She ran after the vehicle, which was slowly moving away, and slammed the trunk with her rolled up program. The driver emerged from the car hurling expletives in her direction. The patient then hit the driver with his cane. The driver shoved the patient into a fender, at which point, the patient insisted, he had no choice … It was no ordinary cane he was carrying, but a beautiful 19th-century model with a sleek, sharp sword concealed within. He then insisted that the driver “apologize at swordpoint” in front of a small crowd that had gathered. The characters in “Il Trovatore,” he added, proudly brandished swords.
Americans seem angry a lot, but it's all in the management
USA Today
By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY
Are we bad for getting mad?Psychologists say it's normal to get angry. We all do it – and we need to feel anger. It's a basic human emotion, they say. More and more, though, we see people losing their cool in public. And the kind of outbursts seen at town hall meetings on health care reform, on tennis courts, on the Internet and even during speeches by the president are increasingly a part of everyday life. "There is very little, if any, social consequence to turning on the flames," says Art Markman, a psychology professor at the University of Texas-Austin, who has written about the anonymity of the Internet making people feel freer to express anger.
Are we bad for getting mad?Psychologists say it's normal to get angry. We all do it – and we need to feel anger. It's a basic human emotion, they say. More and more, though, we see people losing their cool in public. And the kind of outbursts seen at town hall meetings on health care reform, on tennis courts, on the Internet and even during speeches by the president are increasingly a part of everyday life. "There is very little, if any, social consequence to turning on the flames," says Art Markman, a psychology professor at the University of Texas-Austin, who has written about the anonymity of the Internet making people feel freer to express anger.
Bringing Psychology to Cardiac Care
American Psychological Association
Ask psychologist Robert Allan, PhD, for an example of a Type-A personality, and he points to his late father. The senior Allan was hostile, insecure and impatient--a textbook case of the kind of personality prone to heart disease. He had his first heart attack at age 46. "My father had no shortage of free-floating hostility," says Allan, clinical assistant professor of psychology in medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. "He was a very Type-A kind of guy."
Fascination with the link between his father's personality and his heart disease inspired Allan to seek a new practice niche. Over the years, Allan's traditional psychotherapy practice has branched out to include cardiac patients. Today Allan, co-editor of "Heart & Mind: The Practice of Cardiac Psychology" (APA, 1996), devotes his practice in large part to helping cardiovascular patients like his father.
Fascination with the link between his father's personality and his heart disease inspired Allan to seek a new practice niche. Over the years, Allan's traditional psychotherapy practice has branched out to include cardiac patients. Today Allan, co-editor of "Heart & Mind: The Practice of Cardiac Psychology" (APA, 1996), devotes his practice in large part to helping cardiovascular patients like his father.
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