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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
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