Frederick "Fred" Saul Berlin is an

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psychiatrist and

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specializing in sex offenses.Gordon, Ed (April 6, 2005)
Interview: Dr. Fred Berlin and Chief Walter McNeil discuss sexual offenders and predators

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Life and career

Berlin studied psychology, earning a bachelor's degree from the

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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

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, he was an intern at McGill University School of Medicine,

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, and

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. He completed a psychiatric residency at

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in Baltimore and served as an exchange resident at

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, England. After serving as chief resident at Johns Hopkins, he was appointed to its Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.as assistant professor in 1978 and promoted to associate professor in 1986. He has been an attending physician there since 1978 and served as founder and director of its 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 the Subcommittee on the Paraphilias,

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committee on the 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

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in 1996 and was named a distinguished fellow of the

in 2003. In 2009 he was invited to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on the subject of sexually disordered sexual offenders including those with pedophilia. Memberships include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the

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, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the American Psychiatric Association, and the

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. He has appeared as an

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in trials including the murder trial of Mark Dean Schwab and

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.Stingl, Jim (February 4, 1992)
Dahmer Showed Control At Times, Doctor Agrees
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'' He has discussed the merits of

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for sex offenders.Bilefsy, Dan (March 10, 2009)
Castration of sex offenders: Deterrent or torture?
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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. ''

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'' 1981; 138:601-607. *Berlin FS (1989). Special considerations in the psychiatric evaluation of sexual offenders against minors. In Rosner R, Schwartz HI (eds.). ''Juvenile psychiatry and the law.'' Plenum Press, *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. ''

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'', 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. ''

'' 1991; 148:449-453. *Berlin FS (1996). Sexual deviation eview ''

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'', 186, No. 4, pp 255–256, 4/98. Review of Rosen I (ed). ''Sexual Deviation'', Third Edition, Oxford University Press, *Fagan PJ, Wise TN, Schmidt CW, Berlin FS (2002). Special Communication of Pedophilia. '' Journal of the American Medical Association'', 288, 19, pp. 2458–2465, November, 2002. *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,

References

External links

National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma
via Johns Hopkins *Luo, Michael

''The New York Times'', September 14, 2006; Berlin providing contrary opinion to defendant. Article als

Church resolution of case in favor of defendant at: Vitello, Paul

''The New York Times'', December 17, 2010.

- Dr. Berlin has been a consultant to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse since the committee's inception. The interview was conducted September 8, 1997, in Baltimore.
Weighing the Rights of Convicted Sex Offenders
Interview on National Public Radio. June 29, 2006.
Curriculum Vitae
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