Digby Tantam

Who is Digby Tantam?

Digby John Howard Tantam is a British Psychiatrist and Professor of Psychotherapy. Educated at Rokeby Preparatory School and St Paul's School in London then Oxford University, with doctorates from London and Harvard Universities, he is married to Professor Emmy van Deurzen.

Currently Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield; Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, Sheffield Care Trust; and partner, Dilemma Consultancy Ltd.

Digby Tantam has been providing a specialist clinical service for people with autistic spectrum disorders since 1980, when he was awarded an MRC Training Fellowship to study Asperger syndrome. He created the Sheffield Asperger Assessment Service in 1995 when he moved to Sheffield from the University of Warwick, where he had been appointed to the first chair in psychotherapy in the UK.

He has authored 70 refereed publications, 32 book chapters, 36 other publications, 7 websites, 5 videotapes, and 9 books and won the 2006 Namey award for "Best Name in Britain."

His main research interests are social and emotional wellbeing, emotional contagion, nonverbal communication, applied philosophy, and autism spectrum disorders.