The Quest to Understand and Resolve Persistent Dissociative Processes: A Discussion of Levy and Shalgi, “Imagination and Fantasy: The Dialectic Nature of the Encounter with Trauma and Dissociation”

Richard A. Chefetz, M.D. (Washington, D.C; private practice, psychiatry), is the past president, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2002-3), and Co-Founder and Chair of their Psychotherapy Training Program (2000-8), Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He is faculty at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. In 2015, he published Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real, with W.W. Norton, in their Interpersonal Neurobiology series. He recently published “Humiliation Is Not Just About the Intent to Shame and Degrade.” In D. J. Siegel, Schore, A.N., Cozolino, L. (Ed.), Interpersonal Neurobiology and Clinical Practice (pp. 135-168). New York: W.W.Norton, (2021).
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