Frank Ochberg
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Frank Ochberg (born 1940), is a
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, a pioneer in trauma science, an educator and the editor of the first text on the treatment of
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(PTSD). He is one of the founding fathers of modern psychotraumatology and served on the committee that defined PTSD. He is a graduate of
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and of Johns Hopkins Medical School. Ochberg is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at
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, where he has also taught in the College of Human Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Schools of Journalism and Criminal Justice. Ochberg has recently devoted much of his time to educating journalists about trauma, and, in recognition, the Dart Center's Ochberg Fellowship was named for him. Ochberg Fellows, like
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-winning writers, must demonstrate exceptional writing skills as well as thorough investigation of their topics. He is a graduate of
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and
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medical school. From 1969 to 1979 he was a regional, division, and associate director of the
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. He then became director of the Michigan Department of Mental Health, a position he held for 3 years, from 1979 to 1981. Ochberg had created a therapeutic treatment, the counting method, also known as Ochberg's counting method, designed to help with the desensitization of
posttraumatic 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 ...
(PTSD) symptoms. He had also founded, headed or been part of a number of organizations dealing with
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and its treatment, including Gift From Within (founder), Critical Incident Analysis Group (founder) and The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (chairman emeritus).


Personal life

Ochberg attended Camp Rising Sun in 1955 and 1956."Affiliated Programs: ARISE"
Louis August Jonas Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2011 Ochberg has 3 children with Lynn Ochberg, his wife of almost 60 years. They live in Okemos, Michigan, near
Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...
, where Ochberg has taught in the College of Human Medicine and the Schools of Journalism and Criminal Justice.


Books edited

* Violence and the Struggle for Existence (with Daniels and Gilula), editor (1970, Little Brown and Company) * Victims of Terrorism (with Soskis), editor (1982, Westview Press) * Post-traumatic Therapy and Victims of Violence, editor (1988, Brunner Mazel) * Survivor Psalm


See also

* Robert D. Hare * Symptoms of victimization * Counting method


References


External links


Gift From Within


* http://www.dartcenter.org/fellowships {{DEFAULTSORT:Ochberg, Frank Traumatologists 1940 births Living people Harvard University alumni Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni