Carroll Weinberg

The late Carroll Weinberg, M.D., was a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and adult psychoanalyst in private practice in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania and was Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia through 2004. He has a B.A. degree from Duke University and M.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Virginia. He has served on the boards of many organizations, many of which focus on human rights, human relations, and foreign affairs. He is also active with The Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at the University of Virginia, where he has been appointed Chairman of the Advisory Board, and The Board of Governors, The Middle East Forum and Quarterly. Dr. Weinberg has written and lectured on the psychology of terrorism and terrorists, the psychology of torture and torturers, ethnic conflict, authoritarianism, multiple personality dissociation disorder, and the Jewish Diaspora in the southern United States. He has founded a nonprofit center for the treatment of torture survivors. Dr. Weinberg was part of an international psychological trauma team that went to South Africa in 1996. He has been a member of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on National and International Terrorism and Violence. He has been active with the International Society of Political Psychology and is a member of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies. He has participated in four American Jewish Committee working trips to Germany, and in 1995 was named a Fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.