Healing Trauma; Unblocking the Stream of Life

Leader

Gregory Fricchione, MD

Gregory Fricchione, MD, is Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and of the Chester Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry and Co-Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health at Mass General Hospital and the Mind Body Medicine Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 1978 and went on to do his psychiatry residency and chief residency at NYU-Bellevue and fellowship at Mass General Hospital. He specializes in neuropsychiatry and psychosomatic medicine and for over 35 years has cared for patients with severe medical, neurological and surgical illnesses. He is the author of more than 200 publications and has authored or co-authored 6 books including “Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society. On the Nature of Attachment Solutions to Separation Challenges” (2011) and “The Science of Stress” (2016). Dr. Fricchione is also the medical editor of the 2020 Harvard Medical School Special Report on Stress Management. His research interests include the neurophysiology of stress and resilience and how the comparative neurology of brain evolution illuminates our concepts of health and illness and medical caregiving.