Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Temple University School of Medicine
Bala Cynwyd, PA, United States
Richard P. Kluft practices psychiatry, psychoanalysis, amd medical hypnosis in Bala Cynwyd, PA. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine, and teaches at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and the China America Psychoanalytic Alliance. He is one of the three founders of what is now known as the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). He has written over 250 papers, book chapters and books related to dissociation, dissociative disorders, psychoanalysis, and clinical hypnosis. His most cited paper is "First-rank symptoms as a diagnostic clue to multiple personality disorder" (American Journal of Psychiatry, April 1987). He has given numerous workshops and presentations, many on hypnosis and on dissociative disorders. Dr Kluft is a Fellow and Past President of the ISSTD and is a recipient of the ISSTD Lifetime Achievement Award, along with a range of other awards from several societies and journals. He is Past President of ASCH and SCEH, and a past International Conference Chair of ISH. His recent scientific works include a number of papers concerning factors that led to Freud's rejection of hypnosis, and the consequences of that decision for psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and for the stance of psychoanalysis toward trauma and the dissociative disorders. Dr. Kluft also writes a series of mystery-thrillers, and short stories. His Ben Jordan series includes "Good Shrink, Bad Shrink," "An Obituary to Die For," and "A Sinister Subtraction." "How Fievel Stole the Moon: A Story for Sweet Children and Sour Scholars," a folk novella in the tradition of Sholem Aleichem, has been understood as an allegorical study of the risks of righteous rigidity. Who knows?
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Friday, April 14, 2023
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM US Eastern Time
Saturday, April 15, 2023
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM US Eastern Time