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Richard Loewenstein, MD, Psychiatry, Baltimore, MD

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Psychiatry Baltimore, MD

Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine

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    1122 Kenilworth Drive, Ste 314
    Baltimore, MD 21204

Summary

  • Richard J. Loewenstein M.D. is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. He is the founder of, and from 1987-2020 was the Medical Director of The Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt, Baltimore, MD, a national referral center for severely traumatized patients. He has been rated by U.S. News and World Report as among America’s top 1 % of psychiatrists. Dr. Loewenstein did a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD, based in the Sleep Lab and the Consultation-Liaison Service. In the past he was a faculty member of the Departments of Psychiatry at Yale University, New Haven, CT; George Washington University, Washington, DC; and University of California, Los Angeles, CA. He is the author of approximately 100 papers and book chapters on dissociation, dissociative disorders, trauma disorders, dementia, delirium, somatic symptom disorders, and consultation-liaison psychiatry. He is the Section Editor, Dissociative Disorders, of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5TR). He is co-editor of the 4th Revision (in preparation) of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) Guidelines for Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults. Since 2000, he has primarily been the lead author of the Dissociative Disorders chapter in Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. He is leading the revision of the Dissociative Disorders chapter for the upcoming (11th) edition of this textbook. He has contributed chapters on the treatment of dissociative disorders in the last 4 editions (2-5) of Gabbard's Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. He is a distinguished life fellow of the APA and, among other awards, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the ISSTD.

Education & Training

  • Yale-New Haven Medical Center
    Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 1976 - 1979
  • Yale-New Haven Medical Center
    Yale-New Haven Medical CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 1975 - 1976
  • Yale School of Medicine
    Yale School of MedicineClass of 1975
  • University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, BerkeleyB.A., Zoology, 1971

Certifications & Licensure

  • MD State Medical License
    MD State Medical License 1981 - 2026
  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 1979 - 2021
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2002-2014
  • Richard P. Kluft Award for Best Article of the Year (co-author) Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 2013
  • Top Doctors:Baltimore Area Castle Connolly, 2012
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Treating complex trauma survivors  
    Loewenstein, R.J., Brand, B.L., Gilber, L.E., Dressel, C.E., Camins, J.S., Pyne, Z.J., Psychiatric Times, 1/1/2014
  • Opposite brain emotion regulation patterns in identity states of dissociative identity disorder: A PET study and neurobiological model  
    Reinders, A.A.T.S., Willemsen, A.T., den Boer, J.A., Vos, H.P., Veltman, D.J., Loewenstein, R.J., Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 1/1/2014
  • Utility of the SIRS-2 in Distinguishing Genuine From Simulated Dissociative Identity Disorder  
    Brand, B.L, Turisch, M., Tzall, D., Loewenstein, R.J., Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, & Policy, 1/1/2014
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Books/Book Chapters

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Abstracts/Posters

  • The Size, Weight, Height, and Sharpness of The Spikes on the Shoe Are Directly Proportional To The Length of Time Since It Last Dropped: Shame, Negative Therapeutic Re...
    Loewenstein, R.J., Listening to Trauma Conference, Washington, DC, 1/22/2016
  • Fundamental Things About Stage 1 Treatment of DID: All the Things You Were Afraid to Ask, Didn't Know You Needed to Ask, Forgot to Remember to Ask, or Just Wanted to K...
    Loewenstein, R.J., Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation Conference, Orlando, FL, 1/17/2015
  • Evaluation of the evidence for the Trauma and Fantasy Models of dissociation.
    Brand, B.L., Loewenstein, R.J., Dorahy, M.J., Dalenberg, C, Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation Conference, Long Beach, CA, 1/21/2012
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Lectures

  • Treatment of Trauma and Dissociative Disorders in the United States 
    Mannheim, DE - 1/14/2016
  • Don't be Silly, If You Were Suffering from Multiple Personalities, I Would Have Noticed Something: The Complexity of Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of the Dissoc... 
    Berlin, Germany - 1/29/2012
  • Trauma and Trauma Disorders. 
    Washington, DC - 1/7/2011
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Other

  • Rational and Irrational Psychopharmacology for Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders. 
    Loewenstein, R.J., Webinar created for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation
    1/1/2016
  • Dissociative amnesia: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course, and diagnosis. 
    Loewenstein, R.J., Dissociative Disorders. Up-To-Date. Topic 14697 Version 2.0. (Spiegel, D. (ed); Wolters Kluwer Healt
    http://www.uptodate.com/contents/dissociative-amnesia-epidemiology-pathogenesis-clinical-manifestations-course-and-diagnosis?source=search_result&search=dissociative+amnesia&selectedTitle=1~5
    1/1/2014
  • An Office Mental Status Exam for Complex Dissociative Disorders and Dissociative Symptoms: Clinical Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis. 
    Loewenstein, R.J., Webinar created for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation
    1/1/2009
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