Colin A. Ross

Who is Colin A. Ross?

Colin A. Ross is a psychiatrist of Canadian origin and professional trainer. Ross attended medical school at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and completed his training in psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He moved to Dallas, Texas in the early 1990s where he took a position as Director of Dissociative Disorders at Charter Hospital of Dallas.

Ross specializes in posttraumatic stress and dissociative disorders and has written many books and research papers.

Presently Ross works in the Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, a hospital in the Dallas, Texas area. He also directs a trauma program at Forest View Psychiatric Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Most of the people the Ross Institute treats describe very traumatic and abusive childhoods.

Dr. Ross has also produced several documentaries and educational films about dissociative identity disorder. In 1999, he teamed with producer James Myer in the making of Personality: Reality and Illusion. The docu-drama featured Chris Costner-Sizemore, the first woman thought to be diagnosed with MPD. Ms. Sizemore's life was portrayed by Joanne Woodward in the Fox motion picture, The Three Faces of Eve.