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Dr. Steve Silver

What I Do

Dr. Steve Silver has worked with trauma survivors and their families since 1972, including 26 years as director of the inpatient PTSD program at the Coatesville V.A. Medical Center. Now retired from the V.A., Silver continues to serve in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard as a psychologist.

My Background

Dr. Steve Silver has worked with trauma survivors and their families since 1972, including 26 years as director of the inpatient PTSD program at the Coatesville V.A. Medical Center. Now retired from the V.A., Silver continues to serve in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard as a psychologist. He was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and served in combat in Vietnam.  <br/><br/>Silver has worked with American veterans of every combat experience from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He has trained mental health professionals and clinicians as far away as Zagreb, Croatia; Sarajevo; Belfast and Bangladesh, and as close as Oklahoma City (the 1995 bombing) and New York City (9/11). He also has provided training in trauma treatment to V.A. medical centers and U.S. military units in the United States and overseas. <br/><br/>He is coauthor with Dr. Susan Rogers of <em>Light in the Heart of Darkness: EMDR and the Treatment of War and Terrorism Survivors</em>.<br/> Silver will begin answering questions Monday, March 10, 2008.