Daniel Kriegman is an American
psychologist
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and writer whose work focuses on the interface between psychoanalysis and evolutionary biology. He was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, a founder of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England,
and a creative consultant
for th
Edgeline Films(
Showtime
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Television Networks and channels
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) docu-series
Couples Therapy" Dr. Kriegman was formerly Chief Psychologist and the Director of Supervision and Training at the
Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Offenders, as well as the Clinical Director for the maximum-security, intensive-treatment unit for adolescents in
Boston
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.
Kriegman is co-author, with Malcolm Slavin, o
''The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process'' a book that created the psychoanalytic paradigm known as
evolutionary psychoanalysis, and co-editor, with J. G. Teicholz, o
''Trauma, Repetition, & Affect Regulation: The Work of Paul Russell'' He has published over 30 scholarly articles and book chapters on topics related to the evolutionary understanding of human behavior and the theory and practice of psychoanalytic approaches to
psychotherapy
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.
He has a full-time private practice providing psychoanalytic treatment to individuals, couples, and families in
Newton, Massachusetts
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, as well as specialized work in
forensic psychology
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(e.g., expert witness testimony in cases involving the prediction of dangerousness).
He was the founder o
Zuzu's Place which tried to develop a cooperative housing alternative (in Whitman, Massachusetts) to the mental health system for people who had been diagnosed with major mental illnesses.
Kriegman is also one of the founders of an
open source religion calle
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and is the author of "The Word according to Yo."
References
Selected works
Books
with
Malcolm Slavin (Guilford Press, 1992).
''Trauma, Repetition, & Affect Regulation: The Work of Paul Russell.''Teicholz, J. G. & Kriegman, D. (Eds.), 1998. New York: The Other Press.
Doctoral thesis
* A Psycho-social Study of Religious Cults From the Perspective of Self Psychology (University Microfilms International, 1980), can be foun
*Appendix A to this doctoral thesis describe
the recruitment processby which followers are inducted into a religious cult, Guru Mahara Ji's Divine Light Mission.
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American psychoanalysts
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people