Frederick Frese
Dr. Frederick J. Frese is a psychologist practicing in Akron. He resides in Hudson, Ohio and is a member and formerly the Vice President of the national board of directors of National Alliance on Mental Illness. Frese is diagnosed as having schizophrenia.
Dr. Fred Frese is a retired Marine Corps Captain. He is also a former Director of Psychology at Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospital and is on the faculty of Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. A member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) since 1985, Dr. Frese is now in his third term as a member of NAMI's National Board. He is also a member of the American Psychological Association Task Force for the Seriously Mentally Ill and was the founding president of the APA's section for psychologists serving persons with serious mental illness. Dr. Frese has served as a consultant to the Department of Veterans Affairs, to NIMH, and to SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services. He has testified before several congressional committees on mental health service priorities. He has published extensively, and is on the advisory review boards of professional journals, including Schizophrenia Bulletin. He has delivered more than 1000 invited presentations on serious mental illness in some 48 states as well as in Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, Nightline, the ABC Evening News, and has co-produced a widely distributed training video about coping with schizophrenia. Dr. Frese is married and is the father of four adult children.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Joseph Brean The Saturday Interview: Inside the beautiful mind of a schizophrenic psychologist. National Post March 26, 2010
- ↑ Bio from USUHS