psychotherapist
Churchland Psychological Center
Norfolk, VA, United States
Paul Dell lives in Norfolk, Virginia. He has a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Texas. Formerly a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Dr. Dell has been in private practice for the last quarter century. Dr. Dell has specialized in the study and treatment of dissociative disorders since 1985. His special interests are the etiology and nature of the dissociative disorders, and their relationship to high hypnotizability. Dr. Dell constructed and developed the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID), a self-administered assessment and diagnostic instrument. Twenty-five years ago, he proposed a phenomenological model of dissociation (which is assessed by the MID). For the last 15 years, Dr. Dell has been elaborating an autohypnotic theory of the dissociative disorders that differs substantially from the trauma model. Dr. Dell is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). He serves on the editorial boards of ISSTD’s Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, and the American Psychological Association’s Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research and Practice. He is co-editor (with John O’Neil) of Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond (2009). Dr. Dell has received ISSTD’s Morton Prince Award for Scientific Achievement (2004), ISSTD’s Pierre Janet Award (2006 and 2019) for the best publication of the year on dissociation, and ISSTD’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2011). The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis has twice awarded Dr. Dell the Ernest and Josephine Hilgard Award by for the best theoretical paper of the year about hypnosis (2018 and 2019).
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Saturday, April 15, 2023
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM US Eastern Time