Melissa Kaufman

Trauma psychiatrist and researcher at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, co-director of the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program and medical director of the Trauma Continuum of Care, with lived experience of DID and work on treatment and recovery.

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Mar 21, 2026 • 1h 16min

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Explained: Trauma, Neuroscience, Controversies & Recovery

Lauren Lebois, cognitive neuroscientist studying dissociation; Matthew Robinson, trauma program director treating complex trauma; Melissa Kaufman, trauma psychiatrist with lived experience of DID and recovery. They examine DID as a developmental response to repeated childhood maltreatment. They unpack controversies and media myths, review neuroscience contrasting hyperarousal and shutdown, and outline clinical signs, assessment cues, and pathways to recovery.

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