Brian Trappler, M.D.

Brian Trappler, M.D., is the director of Outpa­tient Services at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn, NY, and an associate clinical pro­fessor in psychiatry at the State University of New York at Brooklyn. From 1994-2002, Dr. Trappler was associate medical director of the Anxiety Clinic at SUNY Downstate, where he has also been involved in the education of medical students, residents, psychiatric fellows, and psychology predoctoral interns, since 1994, and reformulated the undergraduate training program in psychiatry at the request of the dean of the medical school.

In 1994, Dr. Trappler received a grant from the Office of Mental Health to treat the victims of the Brooklyn Bridge shooting, and on September 11, 2001, he worked as a first responder for survivors of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Dr. Trappler, who has spent most of his career treating Holocaust survivors, has presented his research findings at various meetings of the American Psychiatric Association and at the Institute for Psychiatric Services meeting in 2006, where he presented his clinical research on the treatment of victims of complex trauma. Dr. Trappler serves as a referee for several prestigious psychiatric journals, including the Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Traumatic Stress, and Annals of Psychopharmacology, and his clinical research findings have been published in various refereed journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry and the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

In his book, Identifying and Recovering from Psychological Trauma: A Psychiatrist's Guide for Victims of Childhood Abuse, Spousal Battery, and Political Terrorism , new from Gordian Knot Books, Trappler explains how victims of childhood abuse, spousal battery, and political terrorism often suffer the same symptoms as those World War I soldiers. Perhaps more importantly, he explains how they can identify and recover from deep psychological stress.

His PT blog is Recovering from Trauma