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 (2002-3), and is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturerat the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He is a faculty member atthe Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and theWashington Center for Psychoanalysis.