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Overview

Richard J. Loewenstein is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health as well as Clinical Psychology. Additional interests include Philosophy, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Child Abuse and Related Trauma
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with diverse aspects of dissociative disorders and mental health issues. Notable papers authored or co-authored by Richard J. Loewenstein include:

  • "Firebug! Dissociative Identity Disorder? Malingering? Or...? An Intensive Case Study of an Arsonist," 2020, Psychological Injury and Law
  • "Dissociative identity disorder: a disorder of diagnostic and therapeutic paradoxes," 2023, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Other recent relevant publications in their field featuring different primary authors but related topics are:

  • "The economic burden of dissociative disorders: A qualitative systematic review of empirical studies," 2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • "Inviting Scientific Discourse on Traumatic Dissociation: Progress Made and Obstacles to Further Resolution," 2020, Psychological Injury and Law
  • "Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnostic Accuracy and DSM-5 Criteria Change Implications," 2021, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

Frequent co-authors in Richard J. Loewenstein's research include:

  • Bethany L. Brand
  • Frank W. Putnam
  • Amie C. Myrick
  • Ruth A. Lanius
  • Hugo J. Schielke

The scientist's research has been published repeatedly in specific venues such as:

  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Psychological Injury and Law
  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
  • Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Emotion Modulation in PTSD: Clinical and Neurobiological Evidence for a Dissociative Subtype

    Ruth A. Lanius;Eric Vermetten;Richard J. Loewenstein;Bethany Brand

  • Evaluation of the Evidence for the Trauma and Fantasy Models of Dissociation

    Constance J. Dalenberg;Bethany L. Brand;David H. Gleaves;Martin J. Dorahy

  • Validity of the dissociative experiences scale in screening for multiple personality disorder: A multicenter study

    Eve Bernstein Carlson;Frank W. Putnam;Colin A. Ross;Moshe Torem

  • Dissociative disorders in DSM‐5

    David Spiegel;Richard J. Loewenstein;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Vedat Sar

  • Hippocampal and amygdalar volumes in dissociative identity disorder.

    Eric Vermetten;Christian Schmahl;Sanneke Lindner;Richard J. Loewenstein

  • Patterns of dissociation in clinical and nonclinical samples.

    Frank W. Putnam;Eve B. Carlson;Colin A. Ross;Geri Anderson

  • A Naturalistic Study of Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified Patients Treated by Community Clinicians

    Bethany Brand;Catherine Classen;Ruth Lanins;Richard Loewenstein

  • Characteristics of patients with multiple personality and dissociative disorders on psychological testing.

    Judith G. Armstrong;Richard J. Loewenstein

  • Hippocampal and Amygdalar Volumes in Dissociative Identity Disorder

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  • An office mental status examination for complex chronic dissociative symptoms and multiple personality disorder.

    Richard J. Loewenstein

  • Disturbances of sleep and cognitive functioning in patients with dementia.

    Richard J. Loewenstein;Herbert Weingartner;J.Christian Gillin;Walter Kaye

  • A longitudinal naturalistic study of patients with dissociative disorders treated by community clinicians.

    Bethany L. Brand;Scot W. McNary;Amie C. Myrick;Catherine C. Classen

  • Distress in Response to and Perceived Usefulness of Trauma Research Interviews

    Eve B. Carlson;Elana Newman;Jill Walker Daniels;Judith Armstrong

  • Where Are We Going? An Update on Assessment, Treatment, and Neurobiological Research in Dissociative Disorders as We Move Toward the DSM-5

    Bethany L. Brand;Ruth Lanius;Eric Vermetten;Richard J. Loewenstein

  • Dissociative disorders in DSM‐5

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  • Reality versus fantasy: Reply to Lynn et al. (2014).

    Constance J Dalenberg;Bethany L Brand;Richard J Loewenstein;David H Gleaves

  • A Survey of Practices and Recommended Treatment Interventions Among Expert Therapists Treating Patients With Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified

    Bethany L. Brand;Amie C. Myrick;Richard J. Loewenstein;Catherine C. Classen

  • Opposite brain emotion-regulation patterns in identity states of dissociative identity disorder: A PET study and neurobiological model

    Antje A.T.S. Reinders;Antje A.T.S. Reinders;Antoon T.M. Willemsen;Johan A. den Boer;Herry P.J. Vos

  • Psychological Assessment of Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder

    Bethany L. Brand;Judith G. Armstrong;Richard J. Loewenstein

  • Multivariate Prediction of Posttraumatic Symptoms in Psychiatric Inpatients

    Eve B. Carlson;Constance Dalenberg;Judith Armstrong;Jill Walker Daniels

  • Dispelling myths about dissociative identity disorder treatment: an empirically based approach.

    Bethany L. Brand;Richard J. Loewenstein;David Spiegel

  • Memory, Amnesia, and Dissociative Identity Disorder

    Eric Eich;Dawn Macaulay;Richard J. Loewenstein;Patrice H. Dihle

Frequent Co-Authors

Bethany L. Brand
Bethany L. Brand Towson University
Ruth A. Lanius
Ruth A. Lanius University of Western Ontario
Eric Vermetten
Eric Vermetten Leiden University Medical Center
Frank W. Putnam
Frank W. Putnam University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eve B. Carlson
Eve B. Carlson VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Catherine C. Classen
Catherine C. Classen University of Toronto
Vedat Sar
Vedat Sar Koç University
Lisa D. Butler
Lisa D. Butler University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Chris R. Brewin
Chris R. Brewin University College London
Cheryl Koopman
Cheryl Koopman Stanford University

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