Nigel Field

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Dr. Field, PAU Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF with the McArthur Foundation funded Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes directed by Dr. Mardi Horowitz prior to his present position as a full-time faculty member at PGSP. Dr. Field's area of expertise is in bereavement, with particular focus on spousal bereavement. He has published extensively on the role of the continuing bond to the deceased in coping with the death of a loved one. More recently, Dr. Field has extended his program of research to Thailand and Cambodia. As part of this, he is examining complicated grief and PTSD stemming from genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. In his clinical practice, Dr. Field focuses on the psychotherapeutic treatment of adults with complicated grief. He incorporates psychodynamic and attachment theory based approaches in his clinical work. Dr. Field's clinical work also includes supervising graduate students in brief therapy for complicated grief.