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Frank Putman

Dr. Frank W. Putnam, MD, is a child psychiatrist and leading researcher on dissociative disorders and the effects of child abuse, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UNC School of Medicine.

Sep 30, 2026

3:56
important to say, yes, yeah, yeah.
3:58
So I began looking, I created a profile using, I met with many of my subjects, research subjects, and we worked together to sort of generate a profile of what a child would look like with this condition.
4:14
And then we sent out for report cards and medical records and school records and those sorts of things.
4:22
And I looked through a lot of family albums with him and listened to their lives and generated a profile.
4:29
And I began to circulate that profile to foster care and to residential treatment settings and to therapists who work.
4:37
I said, have you ever seen any children like this? If so, please send them to me, along with some adult who is a legal guardian.
4:46
And I'd like to sort of follow them.
7:59
you know, even things we may take for granted, like them informing you that they've moved or there's been a change isn't guaranteed, is it?

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