The book Sybil and the subsequent 1976 movie in which Sally Field portrayed a girl with more than a dozen different personalities were the result of a collaboration between psychiatrist Cornelia Wilbur and author Flora Rheta Schreiber. The goal was to have people better understand a child abuse victim who developed alternative personalities as a coping mechanism. While the book and movie raised...
The following story features Robert, a participant in our Deconstructing Stigma: A Change in Thought Can Change a Life mental health public awareness campaign. Told through the eyes of its participants, this campaign boldly challenges the misconceptions of what those with mental illness look like and is intended to spark conversation. To learn more, visit DeconstructingStigma.org. Robert is an...
Lauren Lebois, PhD, McLean Hospital Hosted by the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research
A.A.T. Simone Reinders, PhD, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London Presented by the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory and the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program. McLean community members, including, staff, patients, researchers, and clinicians, are all welcome to attend this lecture. There will also be an opportunity for a small group of...
Olga Trujillo, JD Presented by the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory and the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program. McLean community members, including, staff, patients, researchers, and clinicians, are all welcome to attend this lecture. There will also be an opportunity for a small group of McLean staff members to meet more informally with the speaker an hour prior to the main...
Robert Oxnam, PhD Presented by the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory and the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program. McLean community members, including, staff, patients, researchers, and clinicians, are all welcome to attend this lecture. There will also be an opportunity for a small group of McLean staff members to meet more informally with the speaker an hour prior to the main...
Sachi Nakajima, JD, MSW, Resilience Presented by the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory and the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program. McLean community members, including, staff, patients, researchers, and clinicians, are all welcome to attend this lecture. There will also be an opportunity for a small group of McLean staff members to meet more informally with the speaker an hour prior...
David J. Alperovitz, PsyD, earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He completed pre-doctoral training at Tufts University, a post-doctoral fellowship in psychology for the treatment of trauma and dissociative disorders at McLean Hospital, and a clinical fellowship in Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Alperovitz...
Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, graduated from the combined MD/PhD program at Boston University. As a doctoral student, she trained with Dr. Terence Keane at the National Center for PTSD in Boston. Her research focused on assessment and treatment of trauma-spectrum disorders including acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the dissociative disorders. Subsequently, she...
Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist focusing on the biomarkers of trauma-spectrum disorders as an assistant neuroscientist in the laboratory of Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD. She is also the director of neuroimaging for the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program led by Milissa L. Kaufman, MD, PhD. Overall, her work aims to scientifically examine the predictors and...
Dr. Leslie is the founder and director of the McLean Hospital Initiative for LGBTQ Mental Health, a program dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender nonconforming, and questioning or queer-identified) people and families affected by psychiatric illness through clinical care, research, education, and community building. Dr. Leslie also serves as...
Nina Lewis-Schroeder, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who leads the adult outpatient trauma/LEADER (Law Enforcement, Active Duty, Emergency Responder) track at McLean Hospital. Dr. Lewis-Schroeder provides trauma consultations to patients across the spectrum of treatment as well as state of the art trauma-focused individual, group, and couples therapy within the Adult Outpatient Services. She...
Matthew A. Robinson, PhD, is co-director of the Outpatient Trauma Clinic in the Adult Outpatient Services at McLean Hospital and an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He provides individual, group, and couples treatment for trauma and dissociative disorders. As a member of the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program, Dr. Robinson...
Christopher M. Tangren, MD, is the assistant medical director at the McLean Hospital’s Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Inpatient Program, where he has worked since 2012. Prior, Dr. Tangren was a psychiatry resident at the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program and served as chief resident for McLean Hospital from July 2011 to June 2012. Dr. Tangren is presently pursuing...
Sherry R. Winternitz, MD, is the clinical director of the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Programs. She began her career as a cardiologist before coming to Boston to pursue training in psychiatry, where she completed her residency at Tufts Medical Center and joined the faculty there upon completion of her training. It was during this time that she developed an interest in working with patients...
