Richard Alan Chefetz MD, PhD

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 (2002-03), 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. He is the recipient of ISSTD's Pierre Janet Writing Award for his book Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes (2015) W.W.Norton.