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Video: Reducing the Impact of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is often misunderstood and can be easily missed—or misdiagnosed—by experts. While many of us have come to believe that folks with DID jump between personas and personalities, a very small portion of those with the condition actually exhibit this behavior. The...

ISSTD Honors McLean Researchers and Colleagues With the Pierre Janet Award

A team of research collaborators at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging received the Pierre Janet Award from the International Society of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). This award is given to honor the best clinical...

Video: Lecture – Brain Science and Treatment Course of Trauma-Related Disorders

Presented by Milissa L. Kaufman, MD, PhD, and Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD, McLean Hospital – McLean Forum lecture McLean’s Milissa L. Kaufman, MD, PhD, and Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD explore the symptoms, treatment approaches, and neurobiology associated with three common forms of trauma-related...

Everything You Need To Know About Dissociative Identity Disorder

The origin, experience, and treatment of dissociative identity disorder (DID) are often misunderstood. When patients come into Milissa Kaufman’s office for treatment for DID, they do not put on different hats, speak in different accents, or display different mannerisms. The thought that they would...

In the Media: Between-Network Brain Architecture Indicative of Trauma-Related Dissociative Symptoms

Drs. Lauren A. M. Lebois, Milissa Kaufman, et al, find that brain imaging analyses can uncover changes in functional connections between brain regions linked to dissociative symptoms following trauma.

Novel Neuroimaging Study on Dissociative Symptoms Reveals Wounds of Childhood Trauma

Being traumatized can cause what are known as dissociative symptoms—such as experiencing amnesia, an out-of-body experience, feeling emotionally numb—which may help people cope. Experiencing these symptoms intensely or for a long time, however, can negatively impact an individual’s ability to...

In the Media: Study – MRI With Machine Learning Reveals Brain Changes From PTSD

Lauren A.M. Lebois, PhD, Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, and colleagues discover that MRI boosted by machine learning reveals changes in brains of women with PTSD.

Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, Nominated for 2020 Excellence in Mentoring Award

Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, is McLean Hospital’s nominee for the 2020 Excellence in Mentoring Awards. Presented by Harvard Medical School, the award recognizes “the value of quality mentoring relationships and the impact they have on professional development and career advancement in basic/clinical...

The Mental Health Effects of Highly Stressful Events

In a television interview on April 5, 2020, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams compared our experience of the coronavirus pandemic to epic struggles of the past. “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment,” Adams said. Psychological reactions are a normal part of such big events...

Advancing the Understanding of PTSD

Perhaps one of the most misused words in modern society, “trauma” is used in daily language to describe all sorts of unpleasant or uncomfortable situations. But for 5-10% of the population, trauma and the accompanying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a very precise condition with very real...

The Secret and Life-Changing Impact of Early Childhood Abuse: Dissociative Identity Disorder

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...

McLean’s Milissa Kaufman Receives Cornelia B. Wilbur Award From International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation

For her work in the assessment and treatment of acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and dissociative disorders, McLean Hospital’s Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, was honored with the 2018 Cornelia B. Wilbur Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and...

In the Media: Here, Yet Not Here

Drs. Milissa Kaufman and Lauren A.M. Lebois described how trauma affects the brain.

How Does Trauma Affect Women’s Brains?

Through clinical practice and neuroimaging studies, McLean Hospital’s Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, and Lauren A.M. Lebois, PhD, are revealing the clinical, cognitive, and neurobiological underpinnings of the effect of trauma on the brain, specifically in women, including long-misunderstood forms of...

Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, Named 2017 Recipient of the Jonathan O. Cole Award

Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD, medical director of the Hill Center for Women and director of the Dissociative Disorders and Research Program, was recently awarded the prestigious 2017 Jonathan O. Cole Award. The annual award—established in 2006, thanks to a gift from the Fleetwing Charitable Foundation...

$2 Million Gift Fuels Trauma Research & Center for Women’s Mental Health

McLean Hospital recently received a $2 million gift from an anonymous family that will have far-reaching impact on the field of trauma disorders and, in particular, a special influence on women’s mental health. $1.5 million of the gift has created an endowment to support an annual Trauma Studies...

Webinar: Reducing the Impact of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Join us as Milissa Kaufman, PhD, explains the symptoms and impact of dissociative identity disorder, highlights why it may be difficult to recognize DID, and answers audience questions about tips for coping with dissociative disorders.

Trauma-Related Disorders: Phenomenology, Brain Science, and Treatment Course

Join Milissa L. Kaufman, MD, PhD, and Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD, McLean Hospital, for this week’s McLean Forum lecture. McLean Cloud-CME text registration code: 540

Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD

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...

Hill Center for Women

At the Hill Center for Women, we offer psychiatric and psychological services for women with histories of trauma and related disorders, borderline personality, mood, and anxiety disorders. For more information about our insurance-based program or to make a referral, please call 877.434.0144. The...

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