Dignity is the Opposite of Shame, and Pride is the opposite of Guilt

Psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, DC. He was president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2002-2003), co-founder and chair of their Dissociative Disorders Psychotherapy Training Program (2000-2008, and is a distinguished visiting lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He is also a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. He is a certified consultant at the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and is trained in Level I and II EMDR. Dr Chefetz was editor of Dissociative Disorders: An Expanding Window into the Psychobiology of Mind for the Psychiatric Clinics of North America, March 2006, Neuroscientific and Therapeutic Advances in Dissociative Disorders, Psychiatric Annals, August 2005, and Multimodal Treatment of Complex Dissociative Disorders, a special edition of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 20:2, 2000, as well as numerous journal articles on psychodynamic perspectives on trauma, dissociation, and clinical process. He recently published a book with Norton (2015), in their Interpersonal Neurobiology series, Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real, (). E-mail: