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Memorial - David Halperin, M.D.

 

Dr. David Halperin, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Medical School, died peacefully on December 3, 2003 at the age of 69.  A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia Medical School, Dr. Halperin, in addition to being a published poet,  was the editor of Psychodynamic Perspectives on Religion, Sect, and Cult, as well as many articles on cults.  A long-time board member of AFF, Dr. Halperin contributed a number of articles to Cultic Studies Journal, including "The Dark Underside: Cultic Misappropriation of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis" and "Cults and Children: the Abuse of the Young" (with Arnold Markowitz, M.S.W.).

 

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