Commentary on “Exploring Dissociation and Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Roundtable Discussion”

A. Steve Frankel, PhD, JD, is Board Certified Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and an Attorney at Law, who practices both professions in San Francisco’s East Bay. A past Director of Clinical Training and current Clinical Professor of Psychology at USC, he began recognizing childhood trauma in his adult patient case load in 1980 and has specialized in working with that population ever since. He joined the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation in the 1990s and was the consultant to the Trauma Program at Del Amo Hospital from 1993 until 2001. He was President of the ISSTD in 2002 and has been active in developing and teaching courses in trauma treatment as well as publishing chapters in books and professional journals in the trauma field. Dr. Frankel’s legal practice is limited to health and administrative law.
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