Fred Berlin
Frederick S. "Fred" Berlin is an American psychiatrist and sexologist specializing in sex offenses.[1]
Life and career
Berlin studied psychology, earning a bachelor's degree from University of Pittsburgh in 1964, a master's degree from Fordham University in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in 1972. He earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Dalhousie in 1974. Following a clerkship at Victoria General Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he was an intern at McGill University School of Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Children’s Hospital in Montreal, Canada. He completed a psychiatric residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and served as an exchange resident at Maudsley Hospital in London, England. After serving as Chief Resident at The Johns Hopkins Hospital's Department of Psychiatry, he was appointed to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He was an Assistant Professor from 1978 to 1986, and has been an Associate Professor since then. He has been an Attending Physician there since 1978 and served as Founder and Director of The Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic from 1980 to 1992. In 1992 he founded the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma and serves as its Director.
Berlin served on Subcommittee on the Paraphilias, American Psychiatric Association third revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R) from 1984 to 1989. He received a Presidential Citation from the City of Baltimore in 1996 and was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2003. Memberships include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.
He has appeared as an expert witness in trials including the murder trial of Jeffrey Dahmer.[2] and Mark Dean Schwab.[3] He has discussed the merits of chemical castration for sex offenders.[4]
Selected publications
- Berlin FS (1972). The use of waking and hypnotic suggestions to change behavior. Dissertation.
- Berlin FS, Meinecke CF (1981). Treatment of sex offenders with antiandrogenic medication: conceptualization, review of treatment modalities, and preliminary findings. Am J Psychiatry 1981; 138:601-607.
- Berlin FS (1989). Special considerations in the psychicatric evaluation of sexual offenders against minors. In Rosner R, Schwartz HI (eds.). Juvenile psychiatry and the law. Plenum Press, ISBN 9780306429583
- Berlin FS, Hunt WP, Malin HM, Dyer A, Lehne GK, Dean S (1991). A Five-Year Plus Follow-up Survey of Criminal Recidivism Within a Treated Cohort of 406 Pedophiles, 111 Exhibitionists and 109 Sexual Aggressives: Issues and Outcome. American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 12, 3, pp. 5–28, 1991.
- Berlin FS, Malin HM, Dean S (1989). Effects of statutes requiring psychiatrists to report suspected sexual abuse of children. Am J Psychiatry 1991; 148:449-453.
- Berlin FS (1996). Sexual deviation [review]. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 186, No. 4, pp 255–256, 4/98. Review of Rosen I (ed). Sexual Deviation, Third Edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780192625168
- Saleh F, Berlin FS (2003). Sex Hormones, Neurotransmitters and Psychopharmalogical Treatments in Men with Paraphilic Disorders. Journal of Child Sex Abuse, Vol. 12, No. 3/4. pp. 233–253, 2003. Also published simultaneously in Identifying and Treating Sex Offenders: Current approaches, Research, and Techniques, (ed. Robert Geffner, et al.). The Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press, New York, pp. 233–253, 2003.
- Schwartz MF, Berlin FS (2008). Sexually Compulsive Behavior, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics: Volumes 31-34. Saunders, ISBN 9781416063896
References
External links
- National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma
- Berlin, Fred S., M.D., Ph.D. via Johns Hopkins
- Luo, Michael, "In Sex Abuse Case, Priest's Old Letter Could Be Pivotal", The New York Times, September 14, 2006; Berlin providing contrary opinion to defendant. Article also here. Church resolution of case in favor of defendant at: Vitello, Paul, "A Monsignor Is Defrocked for Abusing a Student",The New York Times, December 17, 2010.
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