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Nick Kanas
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Professionally, I received a B.A. degree from Stanford and an M.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. I interned at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and received psychiatric residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. I now am an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and I directed the group therapy training program there and at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. In 2003, I received the J. Elliott Royer Award for excellence in Academic Psychiatry. I am a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. For over 20 years I conducted research in group therapy and wrote a book entitled Group Therapy for Schizophrenic Patients. My latest book in this area is Integrative Group Therapy for Psychosis: An Evidence-Based Approach.
