Bartley Christopher Frueh (born 1963) is a

clinical psychologist Clinical psychology is an integration of human science, behavioral science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well ...

and

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Early life and education

Frueh was born in New York City in 1963. He received his Bachelor of Arts in psychology from

Kenyon College Kenyon College ( ) is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1824 by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase. It is the oldest private instituti ...

in 1985 and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the

University of South Florida The University of South Florida (USF) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States, and other campuses in St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg and Sarasota, ...

in 1992.

Career

Frueh is a licensed clinical psychologist and holds faculty appointments as Professor of Psychology at the

University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo (UH Hilo) is a public university in Hilo, Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaiʻi. It is one of ten campuses of the University of Hawaiʻi system. It was founded as Hilo Center at Lyman Hall of the Hilo Boys School in 1945 and ...

, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,

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, Houston, Texas, and adjunct professor, Psychiatry in Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Academic Institute. Formerly, Frueh was a professor of psychiatry at both

Baylor College of Medicine The Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a private medical school in Houston, Texas, United States. Originally as the Baylor University College of Medicine from 1903 to 1969, the college became independent with the current name and has been se ...

and the

Medical University of South Carolina The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is a public medical school in Charleston, South Carolina. It opened in 1824 as a small private college aimed at training physicians and has since established hospitals and medical facilities acros ...

in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as Director of Research at The Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas. He also spent 15 years as a staff psychologist and director of the

PTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, warfare and its associated traumas, natural disaster, traffic collision, ...

Clinic at the

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Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina. He has 30 years of professional experience working with military veterans and active-duty personnel. Frueh also sits on the Scientific Advisory Panel for both the SEAL Future Foundation and Boulder Crest Foundation, the Wellness Advisory Board for the Military Special Operations Family Collaborative, and the Medical Advisory Committee for the PTSD Foundation of America. He has served as a paid contractor for the

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, Veterans Affairs,

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, and the

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. Frueh's mental health related commentaries have also been published in ''

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Research

Frueh has conducted

clinical trial Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human subject research, human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel v ...

epidemiology Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and Risk factor (epidemiology), determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent dise ...

, historical epidemiology, and

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

research, primarily with combat veterans, and has acted as principal investigator on 15 federally funded research projects and co-investigator, mentor, or consultant on over 25 others. The focus of much of Frueh's research is aimed towards trauma survivors experiencing psychological disorders such as

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that develops from experiencing a Psychological trauma, traumatic event, such as sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, warfare and its associated traumas, natural disaster ...

. Over the course of his career Frueh has authored over 300 peer reviewed scientific publications.

Most cited works

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Prevalence Estimates of Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Critical Review
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''Poly-Victimization and Risk of Posttraumatic, Depressive, and Substance Use Disorders and Involvement in Delinquency in a National Sample of Adolescents''''Special Section on Seclusion and Restraint: Patients' Reports of Traumatic or Harmful Experiences Within the Psychiatric Setting''''Current directions in videoconferencing tele-mental health research''''Apparent symptom overreporting in combat veterans evaluated for ptsd''

Recent works

Frueh is co-author o
''Assessment and Treatment Planning for PTSD''
a guide providing evidence-based approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD. Additionally, under the pen name of Christopher Bartley, he is a noir crime novelist who created the hardboiled Ross Duncan Series (''They Die Alone, 2013'', etc.) set in 1934 America at the end of the Prohibition during the public enemy era. The series’ protagonist, Ross Duncan, is a hunted criminal, but he is also a wandering observer who engages with people from all strata of society, polite or otherwise.

Ross Duncan series

They Die Alone (2013)Sleep Not, My Child (2013)For a Sin Offering (2013)To Catch is Not to Hold (2013)Unto the Daughters of Men (2013)A Bullet to Dream Of (2014)Every Secret Thing (2014)Naked Shall I Return (2015)
More recently, Frueh has also publishe
''A Season’s Past'' (2019)
a collection of novellas featuring men with guns and their search for meaning and intimacy.

References

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