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Richard J. Loewenstein, MD (he/him/his)

Adjunct Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Towson, Maryland, United States

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. After graduation from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT in 1975, from 1975-79, he did a psychiatric residency/postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. From 1980-82, he did a clinical associate at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD. He has been on the faculty of the departments of psychiatry at Yale University, George Washington University (Washington, DC), and University of California, Los Angeles. 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-5-TR). 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 (CTP); 11th edition revision is in press. He has authored chapters on treatment of dissociative disorders, in all the most recent editions of the APA’s Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. He is a distinguished life fellow of the APA and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the ISSTD. He is co-investigator and senior advisor to the longitudinal Treatment of Patients with Dissociative Disorders (TOPDD) Study.

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