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Frederick S. "Fred" Berlin is an American psychiatrist and sexologist specializing in sex offenses.
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- Moore center 2015 symposium fred berlin
- Expert Reports Dr Fred S Berlin
- Life and career
- Selected publications
- References
Expert Reports - Dr. Fred S. Berlin
Life and career
Berlin studied psychology, earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh 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 Halifax, Nova Scotia, he was an intern at McGill University School of Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, and Children's Hospital in Montreal. He completed a psychiatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and served as an exchange resident at Maudsley Hospital in London, England. After serving as chief resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital's Department of Psychiatry, he was appointed to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He was an assistant professor from 1978 to 1986, and has been an associate professor since then. He has been an attending physician there since 1978 and served as founder and director of the Johns Hopkins 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, American Psychiatric Association 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 City of Baltimore in 1996 and was named a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association 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 American Medical Association, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.
He has appeared as an expert witness in trials including the murder trial of Mark Dean Schwab and Jeffrey Dahmer. He has discussed the merits of chemical castration for sex offenders.
On February 9, 2013, the website "Paterno - The Record" released a statement from the Paterno family questioning the findings in the Freeh Report regarding the Penn State sex abuse scandal. It posited that the Freeh Report reached a number of dubious conclusions regarding the actions of Joe Paterno and other officials at Penn State University. Berlin was one of the contributors to the Report.