Dr. Richard Josph Loewenstein M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
6501 N Charles St Sheppard Pratt Physi Towson MD, 21204Rating
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Dr. Richard Loewenstein is a psychiatrist practicing in Towson, MD. Dr. Loewenstein is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Loewenstein diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Loewenstein may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Loewenstein treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Dissociation of the "bad" parent, preservation of the "good" parent.
- Cognitive inhibition and interference in dissociative identity disorder: the effects of anxiety on specific executive functions.
- Psychological assessment of patients with dissociative identity disorder.
- DID 101: a hands-on clinical guide to the stabilization phase of dissociative identity disorder treatment.
- Hippocampal and amygdalar volumes in dissociative identity disorder.
- Assessment of genuine and simulated dissociative identity disorder on the structured interview of reported symptoms.
- An office mental status examination for complex chronic dissociative symptoms and multiple personality disorder.
- Rational psychopharmacology in the treatment of multiple personality disorder.
- Emotion modulation in PTSD: Clinical and neurobiological evidence for a dissociative subtype.
- Characteristics of patients with multiple personality and dissociative disorders on psychological testing.
- Where are we going? An update on assessment, treatment, and neurobiological research in dissociative disorders as we move toward the DSM-5.
- Evaluation of the evidence for the trauma and fantasy models of dissociation.
- Disinformation about dissociation: Dr Joel Paris's notions about dissociative identity disorder.
- Development and initial validation of the Structured Interview for Self-Destructive Behaviors.
- Patients with DID are found and researched more widely than Boysen and VanBergen recognized.
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