Professor Jennifer J. Freyd, Ph.D.

Jennifer Freyd, since 1992 has been Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon ( http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/). She received her B.A. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and her Ph.D in psychology from Stanford University in 1983. Prof Freyd has served on the editorial boards of seven journals and since 2005 she has been the editor of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, a journal closely associated with the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), (http://www.isst-d.org/). Prof Freyd runs an acclaimed research lab that has particularly examined issues concerning trauma, memory and the recovery of memories of past trauma. Arising from her earlier in this area was her landmark book, “Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996). For “Betrayal Trauma” she received a 1997 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology and the 1997 Pierre Janet Writing Award from the ISSTD. She has been the author of many scientific papers and book chapters and has enjoyed wide collaboration with her colleagues e.g. the 2005 paper co-authored with Frank Putnam, Thomas Lyon, Kathryn Becker-Blease, Ross Cheit, Nancy Siegel & Kathy Pezdek, “The science of child sexual abuse”, ( Science, 308, 501). In 2001 she co-edited with Anne DePrince, “Trauma and Cognitive Science: A Meeting of Minds, Science, and Human Experience”, (Haworth Press). • Find out more