Department of Psychiatry, URMC

Nancy L. Talbot, Ph.D.

Academic and Clinical Appointments

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Director, Psychotherapy Institute

Contact Information

University of Rochester Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
300 Crittenden Boulevard
Rochester, New York 14642-8409

(585) 275-3605

Nancy_Talbot@URMC.Rochester.edu

Education

Wellesley College	B.A. in English

Brown University	M.A.T. in Teaching/English

Boston University	M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology

State University of New York at Buffalo	Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology

Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Mental Health Center	Predoctoral Internship and Fellowship

Research
Focus and
Interests

Treatments for women who have childhood abuse and lifetime trauma histories

Clinical course of depression and comorbid disorders among women with childhood abuse and lifetime trauma histories

Professional Overview

Dr. Talbot studies treatment interventions for women with histories of childhood sexual abuse and other trauma exposures. She has examined the effectiveness of a group therapy for hospitalized women who had early sexual abuse histories, and the personality predictors of treatment outcomes. Dr. Talbot is now engaged in a study of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for women with major depression who have histories of childhood sexual abuse and are being treated in a community mental health center. Her research focuses on the course of treated depression and comorbid disorders in this high-risk subset of depressed women, and on the effectiveness and applicability of IPT for this patient population.

Dr. Talbot was recruited to the University of Rochester in 1990 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999.

Selected Publications

Talbot, N.L., Duberstein, PR, Butzel, J.S., Cox, C., Giles, D.E. (in press). Personality traits and symptom-reduction in a group treatment for women with histories of childhood sexual abuse. Comprehensive Psychiatry.

Butzel, J.S., Talbot, N.L., Duberstein, P.R., Houghtalen, R.P., Cox, C., Giles, D.E. (2000). The relationship between traumatic events and dissociation among women with histories of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 188, 547-549.

Larson, M.R., Duberstein, P.R., Talbot, N.L., Caldwell, C., & Moynihan, J.A. (2000). Preliminary examination of a pre-surgical psychosocial intervention for breast cancer patients: Psychological distress and the immune response. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 48, 187-194.

Talbot, N.L., Duberstein, P.R., King, D.A., Cox, C., & Giles, D.E. (2000). Personality traits of women with histories of childhood sexual abuse. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 41, 130-136.

Talbot, N.L., Houghtalen, R.P., Duberstein, P.R., Cox, C., Giles, D.E., & Wynne, L.C. (1999). Effects of group treatment for women reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse. Psychiatric Services, 50, 686-692.

Talbot, N.L., Houghtalen, R.P., Cyrulik, S., Betz, A., Barkun, M., Duberstein, P.R., & Wynne, L.C. (1998). Women’s safety in recovery: Group therapy for patients with a history of childhood sexual abuse. Psychiatric Services, 49, 213-217.

Talbot, N. L. (1996). Women sexually abused as children: The centrality of shame issues and treatment implications. Psychotherapy, 33, 11-18.