Explore what really happens in dissociation with Richard Chefetz: "Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes" Winner of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's Pierre Janet Writing Award, 2015: goo.gl/oUhS32 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 Lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He is a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.