Description:
Winner of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's (ISSTD) Pierre Janet Writing Award, 2015.
What really happens in dissociation.
Brief description:
Richard A. Chefetz, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, D.C. He was President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2002-3), and is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He is a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and the
Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.
Review Quotes: [A] goldmine for anyone struggling to understand this most perplexing and important of fields. . . . Dissociative disorders are frequently described as 'hidden disorders, ' in part because even in plain sight their signs and symptoms are subtle and nuanced. That elusiveness is perhaps the most daunting challenge to developing clinicians . . . . I know of no other work on dissociation that contributes so much in this regard. . . . [N]o one can gainsay the invaluable contribution this treatise has made in illuminating diverse dissociative symptomatology in the complex clinical contexts in which it is most often encountered, and too often overlooked.-- "Psychodynamic Psychiatry" (3/30/2016 12:00:00 AM)