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Summary
Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis, Ph.D., is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and researcher. He received his Ph.D. with the highest honors for the book Somatoform dissociation: Phenomena, measurement, and theoretical issues (also available as Somatoforme Dissoziation, Junfermann, 2006) In 1998 the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) granted him the Morton Prince Award for Scientific Excellence; in 2000 the Pierre Janet Writing Award; in 2002 the status of Fellow, and in 2005 the David Caul Memorial Award. He works at the Top Referent Trauma Center of Mental Health Care Drenthe, Assen, The Netherlands. His research addresses the psychology and psychobiology of chronic traumatization and dissociation. He has written many clinical and scientific articles, book chapters, and some books, he is a reviewer of several professional journals, and he provides presentations and workshops at many international conferences. In 2004 Queen Beatrix from the Netherlands appointed him Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion for his outstanding contributions to the study and treatment of chronically traumatized individuals. With Onno van der Hart and Kathy Steele, he wrote The haunted self: Structural dissociation and the treatment of chronic traumatisation (also available as Das verfolgte Selbst, Junfermann, 2008). The authors were awarded ISSTD’s Media Award for this book.