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is with great pleasure that The American Academy
of Experts in Traumatic Stress welcomes Dr. Harold
Kaplan as a member and Diplomate. Dr. Kaplan was
recently appointed to serve on the Academy’s Board
of Scientific & Professional Advisors. He
is currently professor of psychiatry at New York
University (NYU) School of Medicine, an appointment
dating back to 1980. Since that time he has been
an attending psychiatrist at Tisch Hospital (the
University Hospital of the NYU Medical Center)
and Bellevue Hospital of the NYU Medical Center.
He is co-director of NYU Medical Center’s Continuing
Medical Education Program in Psychiatry and is
consultant psychiatrist at Lenox Hill Hospital
in New York City. From 1958 to 1980, he was professor
of psychiatry at New York Medical College and
director of Psychiatric Education, heading the
undergraduate, residency, and continuing education
programs in psychiatry, and he was a visiting
psychiatrist at Metropolitan Hospital in New York
City.
He received his
Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University.
He received his M.D. from New York Medical College
in 1949 at the age of 21, interned at Jewish Hospital
of Brooklyn, and served his psychiatric residency
training at Kingsbridge Bronx Veterans Administration
Hospital, New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, and
Jewish Board of Guardians (in child psychiatry).
He has received awards for academic excellence
in psychiatry from the Alumni Association of New
York Medical College (1983), the Distinguished
Service Award in Psychiatry from the Association
of Psychiatric Outpatient Centers of America and
the NYU Post-Graduate Medical School (1982), and
a Founders Day Award for Scholastic Achievement
for NYU (1988).
During his tenure
at New York Medical College, he was the principal
investigator of 10 educational grants in psychiatry
from NIMH, several specializing in the psychiatric
training of women physicians. He was a member
of the Preparatory Commission on Psychiatric Education
for NIMH and the American Psychiatric Association
during 1973-1975. In 1957 he was certified in
psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry
and Neurology and has served as an Assistant and
Associate Examiner of the American Board for 12
years. He received a Certificate of Commendation
from the American Psychiatric Association for
his work as chairman of their committee on Education
during 1973-1975. Professor Kaplan was certified
in psychoanalysis in 1955 by New York Medical
College. He has published many papers in numerous
psychiatric journals and has authored and edited
numerous books. He is a Life Fellow of the American
Psychiatric Association, the American College
of Physicians, the New York Academy of Medicine,
and the American Orthopsychiatric Association.
He is also a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary
Medical Society and treasurer of the NYU-Bellevue
Psychiatric Society.
He presently makes
his home in New York City, where he is married
to actress Nancy Barrett. He has three children,
Jennifer, Peter Mark, and Phillip. He maintains
an active general psychiatric practice in Manhattan,
which includes individual and group psychotherapy,
psychiatric consultation, and psychoanalysis.
In his leisure time he enjoys travel, fine food,
and reading nonfiction.
Books by Harold I. Kaplan,
M.D., B.C.E.T.S. and Benjamin J. Sadock, M.D.
Synopsis of Psychiatry
Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry
Study Guide and Self-Examination
Review for Synopsis of Psychiatry
Comprehensive Group Psychotherapy
The Sexual Experience
Clinical Psychiatry
Pocket Handbook of Clinical
Psychiatry
Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry
and Psychology
Pocket Handbook of Psychiatric
Drug Treatment
Pocket Handbook of Emergency
Psychiatric Medicine
Studies in Human Behavior,
1-5
(with A.M. Freedman)
Modern Group Books I-VI
The Human Animal
©1997 by The
American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress,
Inc.
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