Zindel Segal

Zindel V. Segal is the Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is Head of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Toronto.

He was an undergraduate in Psychology at McGill University and completed his graduate work at Queen's University.

His main interests are in the cognitive mechanisms of relapse vulnerability in affective disorder, particularly the way in which transient dysphoria can energise depressive knowledge structures in semantic memory. He has also played a part in the development of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for depression.