Alan J. Lipman is an American clinical
psychologist and
musician. He is in practice in
Washington, D.C.
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studying causes of violence in adults and youth, mass and school shootings, murder and homicide, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the
George Washington University Medical Center, the director of the Center for the Study of Violence, and an expert for news organizations such as the Washington Post.
Lipman is also a
commentator on the areas of
violence
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, mass and
school shootings
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,
homicide,
terrorism
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,
psychology
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and
psychotherapy, having served as commentator for CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, CBS News, ABC News, Fox, NHK and the CBC since 1998,.
Lipman holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Clinical Psychology from
Temple University
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as well as
Juris Doctor from
Georgetown University Law Center
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As a musician, he performs credited as X-Patriate.
Career
Lipman has served as a professor at
Georgetown University
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, The
George Washington University
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, and
Rutgers University
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, and has also held positions at The Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania
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and
Yale Psychiatric Institute. At Georgetown, he founded the Center for the Study of Violence as well as the Georgetown Youth Violence Summit. Lipman also served as co-chairman of the Academic Advisory Council of the White House Campaign Against Youth Violence, initiated at a
White House
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summit during the
Clinton Administration. He has also served as a consultant on the effects of
September 11, 2001
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to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and to the
U.S. Department of State
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and is an Invited Member of the United Kingdom Peer Review College of the
Economic and Social Research Council and an Invited Member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal ''Violence and Gender''.
He lectures both nationally and internationally on the subjects of violence, crime, terrorism, and their causes, after-effects, and prevention.
He also writes on the psychology of Presidents, including Donald Trump.
In the media
Commentator
Lipman has appeared on
MSNBC
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CNN
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,
CNN Headline News,
NBC Evening News
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CBS
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ABC News
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Court TV, and the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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Lipman also has an additional career as a composer, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist and recording artist.