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Jennifer Freyd, Mentor
Psychology

Angela Binder, McNair Scholar

Professor Jennifer Freyd received her PhD in psychology from Stanford University in 1983. She joined the UO Psychology Department in 1987 and now directs an active laboratory investigating the psychology of trauma with a focus on memory and awareness for trauma, and on the physical and mental health consequences of betrayal trauma. The recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is currently a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her influential book, Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse (Harvard Press, 1996) has now been published in paperback and Spanish language editions. She is also the co-editor of Trauma & Cognitive Science (Haworth Press, 2001).