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Digby Tantam (born 15 March 1948) is a British psychiatrist, psychologist and psychotherapist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sheffield., [1] and a director of the Septimus group. His main research interests are social and emotional wellbeing, emotional contagion, nonverbal communication, applied philosophy and autism spectrum disorders. [2]
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Tantam was educated at Rokeby School and St Paul's School in London, then at Oxford University.
He has been providing a clinical service for people with autistic spectrum disorders since 1980, when he was awarded a training fellowship from the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) 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.
Tantam is an Emeritus Professor at The School of Health and Related Research at The University of Sheffield. [3]
He has written 70 peer reviewed papers, 32 book chapters and 36 other publications, 7 websites, 5 videotapes, and 9 books (1 translated into Polish, Japanese, and Arabic).
He is married to Professor Emmy van Deurzen.