Frawley-O'Dea, Mary Gail

Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, a clinical psychologist, was the only mental health professional to address the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at their seminal 2002 Dallas meeting on the sexual abuse crisis, and she was one of the clinicians speaking about sexual abuse to the Conference of Major Superiors of Men that year. Frawley-O'Dea is co-author of"Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse", and co-editor of "Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims". She is the former Executive Director of the Trauma Treatment Center at the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis.