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Frederick J. Frese, Ph.D.
Board Member
Frederick J. Frese, Ph.D. Dr. Frederick J. Frese is
a psychologist with thirty years experience working with persons with serious mental
illness. Since retiring from the Ohio mental health system where he served as Director of
Psychology at Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospital for 15 years, he has coordinated the
Summit County Recovery Project, serving consumers in the Akron area. He is a graduate of
Tulane University where he majored in Psychology. Following his graduation, he served as
an officer in the Marine Corps in Japan during the Viet Nam War. Later, while working as a
guard officer for the nuclear weapons arsenal at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville,
Florida, Fred experienced his first schizophrenic break. For the next ten years he was in
and out of mental hospitals, often on secure wards. Despite his disability he was able to
earn a degree from the American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix,
Arizona, and a masters and doctorate in Psychology from Ohio University.
Dr. Frese has been active as a consumer/provider and
advocate in the mental health movement in this country. He on the Board of Trustees for
the Treatment Advocacy Center in Washington, D. C. Fred founded the Community and State
Hospital Section of the American Psychological Association, where he is currently part of
the Task Force for the Seriously Mentally Ill/Emotionally Disturbed. In 1999 he received
the Hildreth Award, the APA’s highest honor for distinguished service in public
service psychology. He is a past president of the National Mental Health Consumers
Association. He is also on the Board of Scientific Advisors for Schizophrenia Bulletin. In
the past he has served on the boards of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI),
the American Occupational Therapy Association, and the Ohio Psychological Association. He
has also worked as a consultant to the National Institute for Mental Health and the
Veterans Administration.
Dr. Frese is the editor of The Role of Organized Psychology
in the Treatment of the Serious Mentally Illness, published by Jossey-Bass in the winter
of 2000. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and lectures widely
around the United States and Canada. Dr. Frese has been featured on CNN, World News
Tonight with Peter Jennings, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and in the
video I’m Still Here: The Truth About Schizophrenia.
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