Istanbul University Vedat Şar (born 1955) is a Turkish psychiatrist and professor who specialises in psychological trauma and dissociative disorders.
The Program contributed to the psychotraumatology studies from a cross-cultural perspective and altered the pre-dominant conception of dissociative identity disorder as a phenomenon isolated to Western world.
[6] He has served as an international advisor to the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 Workgroup on Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, Post-Traumatic, and Dissociative Disorders.
[9][10] In 2013 he was involved with the diagnosis and treatment of a highly publicized "vampire" case in Turkey, which became the subject of an article that was published in the journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
[11][12][13][14][15] He frequently provides commentary to the media and participates as a speaker in cross-disciplinary panels about the psychological and sociological dynamics of trauma.