Allen R. Dyer is professor emeritus of

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry. Initial psych ...

and

behavioral sciences Behavioral sciences explore the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioral interactions between organisms in the natural world. It involves the systematic analysis and investigation of human and animal behavior through naturalistic o ...

with the

George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , preside ...

. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. As of January 2017 he is the sole surviving member of the committee that formulated the

Goldwater rule The Goldwater rule is Section 7 in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Principles of Medical Ethics, which states that psychiatrists have a responsibility to participate in activities contributing to the improvement of the community ...

of the

American Psychiatric Association The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world. It has more than 37,000 members are involve ...

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Rhys Blakely, ''The Times'', 18 January 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.

Education

Dyer is a graduate of

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

and did his MD and PhD (religion/biomedical ethics) at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

.Allen Dyer.
The GW Medical Faculty Associates. Retrieved 22 January 2018.

Selected publications

* ''Ethics and Psychiatry: Toward Professional Definition''. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, D.C., 1988. * ''One More Mountain to Climb: What My Illness Taught me about Health'' * ''Global Mental Health Ethics ''

References

External links

* https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Allen_Dyer American psychiatrists George Washington University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Duke University School of Medicine alumni Brown University alumni {{Med-bio-stub