Presenter: John A. O'Neil, MD, FRCPC
Presenter Bio: Dr John O'Neil is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice. He was assistant professor of psychiatry, McGill University, and attending psychiatrist at the Douglas Hospital for 16 years, then at St. Mary's Hospital for 20 years, until he retired from McGill in July 2018. Dr O’Neil is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), which granted him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020. Dr O’Neil presented frequently at ISSTD Annual Conferences and, since 2002, teaches in the ISSTD Dissociative Disorders Psychotherapy Training Program, currently online. Dr O'Neil co-edited, with Paul Dell, the book Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders (Routledge, 2009), for which Dr O'Neil received the ISSTD Pierre Janet Writing Prize.  Dr O’Neil was co-editor, with Emanuela Mundo (of Milan, Italy), of a chapter of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual – 2nd edition, in 2017, co-edited by Vittorio Lingiardi (Rome) and Nancy McWilliams (New Jersey). Dr O’Neil is co-editor, with Martin Dorahy, PhD, of Christchurch, New Zealand, and Steven Gold, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, of the 2nd edition of Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders – Past, Present, Future, whose official publication date is 2023. Dr O’Neil wrote 2 chapters, the first an update on his 2009 chapter, Dissociative Multiplicity and Psychoanalysis; and the second, Dissociation in the ICDs and DSMs, which reviews the official take on dissociative disorders from 1900 up to ICD-11 (2022).