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Paul F. Dell, PhD (he/him/his)

Psychotherapist
Churchland Psychological Center
Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Paul F. Dell, Ph.D. lives in Norfolk, Virginia. Formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School, he is now in private practice. Dr. Dell has specialized in the study and treatment of the dissociative disorders for over 40 years. His special interests are assessment, nosology of the dissociative disorders, the mechanisms of pathological dissociation, and the source of hypnotic responses. Dr. Dell has reconceptualized the nature and etiology of clinical dissociation, the dissociative disorders, and so-called hypnotic responses.

Dr. Dell is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). Over the years, he has served in various ISSTD capacities, including the chair of the Diagnostic Taxonomy Committee, co-chair of ISSTD's DSM-V Task Force, and Coordinator of ISSTD’s Dissociative Disorders Research Planning Conferences. Dr. Dell is on the editorial boards of Journal of Trauma & Dissociation and Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research and Practice and is the senior editor of Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond (Dell & O’Neil, 2009).

Dr. Dell has received ISSTD’s Morton Prince Award for Scientific Achievement (2004) and ISSTD’s Pierre Janet Award in 2006 and 2019 for the best publication of the year on dissociation. He gave ISSTD’s Pierre Janet Memorial Lecture in 2008 and was awarded ISSTD’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. He has received the Hilgard Award from the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis for the best publication of the year on theory of hypnosis in 2017 and 2018.

Dr. Dell has a PhD in clinical psychology (University of Texas, 1977), completed a fellowship in family therapy (University of Texas Medical Branch, 1978-1979), and undertook postgraduate training in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder. Dr. Dell has published paradigm-challenging papers in the fields of family therapy, the dissociative disorders, and hypnosis.

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