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It
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
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