Background
Perlin, Seymour was born on September 27, 1925 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Son of Samuel and Fanny (Horowitz) Perlin.
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Seymour Perlin
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Student, Johns Hopkins University, 1943-1944; Bachelor summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1946; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1950; graduate, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
Career
Intern, University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1951-1952;
resident, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1950-1951, 53-54;
resident, Manhattan Eastern State Hospital, 1952;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Bethesda, Maryland., 1954-1959;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Stanford, California, 1959-1960;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, New York City, 1960-1963;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Baltimore, 1964-1972;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Bethesda, since 1974;
chief division psychiatry, Montefiore Hospital, 1960-1963;
director clinical care and training, Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1964-1972;
senior research scholar, Center for Bioethics, Kennedy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, 1974-1978;
clinical professor psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, 1973-1974;
clinical professor psychiatry, George Washington University School Medicine, 1974-1976;
professor to professor emeritus, George Washington University School Medicine, 1977-1997, 97-;
also director residency training, George Washington University School Medicine, 1977-1993;
lecturer psychiatry, Columbia University, 1963-1964;
associate professor psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School Medicine, 1964-1965;
professor, Johns Hopkins School Medicine, 1966-1972;
deputy department chairman psychiatry and behavioral science, Johns Hopkins School Medicine, 1969-1972;
program director, Fellowship Program in Suicidology, 1967-1972;
advisory council, University health services Princeton, 1970-1982. Visiting fellow Princeton University, 1973, University of Oxford, 1974. Joseph P. Kennedy fellow medicine, law and ethics, 1974-1975.
Chief section psychiatry Laboratory Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health, 1955-1959, member clinical program-project committee, 1967-1970. Fellow Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1959-1960. Chairman mental health study section B, division research grants National Institutes of Health, 1964-1966.
Consultant Community Mental Health Services, Maryland. Department Mental Hygiene, 1964-1972. Chairman, Board Of Directors Youth Suicide National Center, 1985-1987.
Achievements
Membership
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946, with United States Public Health Service, 1954-1958. Fellow American Psychiatric Association. Member American College Psychiatry, Washington Psychoanalytic Society, Medical Society District of Columbia, Washington Psychiatric Society, American Association Suicidology (president 1969-1970, Dublin award 1978, annual lectureship in suicidology in his name George Washington University 1995).
Connections
Married Ruth Joan Rudolph, August 21, 1958. Children: Jonathan Brian, Steven Michael, Jeremy Francis.
