Dorothy Lewis

Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis is an American psychiatrist specializing in the study of serial killers and people with Dissociative Identity Disorders (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. Dr. Lewis has worked with death row inmates as well as other prison inmates convicted for crimes of passion and violence, and was the director of the DID clinic at Bellevue Hospital, associated with New York University (NYU) in New York City. She is a Professor of Psychiatry at Yale and New York universities and is the author of Guilty by Reason of Insanity, a book she wrote based on research done with the help of neurologist Jonathan Pincus. Her husband, Dr. Melvin Lewis, a child psychiatrist and professor at Yale, died in 2007. She has...