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Jeffrey Satinover has practiced psychiatry since 1986, and psychoanalysis since 1976. He is the author of five books (three with major publishing houses, in nine languages worldwide) and is presently a graduate student and teaching fellow pursuing a Ph.D. in the department of physics at Yale University as part of the Condensed Matter Theory Group under Prof. Steven Girvin. His areas of research are in fundamental quantum theory and its application to quantum information processing and computation. He is the quantitative partner for a hedge fund in Westport, Connecticut. Given these activities, he is now rarely obliged to don a tie, regardless of what the photograph suggests. |
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Dr. Satinover is a former National Merit Scholar (W. H. Taft HS, 1965, Woodland Hills, CA) and holds degrees from M.I.T. (S.B.), Harvard (Ed.M.) and the University of Texas (M.D.). He completed psychoanalytic training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Zürich. He is a former fellow (resident) in psychiatry and child psychiatry at Yale where he was twice awarded the department of psychiatry’s Seymour Lustman Residency Research Prize (2nd place). He was the 1975 William James Lecturer at Harvard. |
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His newest book, The Quantum Brain, explores current developments at the interface of physics, computation, artificial intelligence and neuroscience (April, 2001, Wiley). It has been described by George Gilder, best-selling author and publisher of the Gilder Technology Report and of the American Spectator as “...the first great book of the 21st century and the first definitively 21st century book. It will be read with admiration and amazement for centuries to come.” [Subject’s comment: The subject only wishes!] Dr. Satinover’s previous writings include: Cracking the Bible Code (William Morrow & Co.), a critical discussion, pro and con, of modern scientific analyses of the ancient tradition of hidden encryptions in the five books of Moses. It is more importantly the story of one of the most significant and invisible figures of the Holocaust, Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, whose rescue of tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis—through two years of face-to-face negotiations with Himmler’s and Eichmann’s chief overseers in Eastern Europe—is almost entirely unknown to the world at large. Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth (Baker Book House), an analysis of the current debate over homosexuality viewed from psychological, religious and scientific perspectives. It has been applauded by psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists and religious leaders and has remained continuously among Baker Book House’s academic best-sellers since it was first released in February of 1996. The Hon. Robert Dornan read into the Congressional Record his conviction that “...this is the best book on homosexuality written in our lifetime. It should be read from sea to shining sea.” The book reflects his experience, both personal and professional, with many people who are no longer “homosexual.” “Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning,” an article in First Things, a Journal of Religion and Public Life, is one of a number of his articles that been widely reprinted. This one states his case against psychotherapeutic method become worldview. |
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In 1988, at age 41, Satinover was commissioned Captain, Reserve, in the United States Army, appointed State Flight Surgeon to the CTARNG Headquarters State Area Command in Hartford and attached to D Company Command and Control for the 1st Battalion, 169th (combat-support helicopter) Regiment headquartered in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. He was there responsible for the medical health and flightworthiness of the 1109th AVCRAD’s complement of regular army and both full- and part-time National Guard aviators flying Huey and CH-54B Skycrane “Tarhe” helicopters. He was promoted to Major and later transferred to the IRR as a psychiatrist. He resigned his commission in 1998 at age 51. A large proportion of the aviators with whom he worked in the 1/169 were combat veterans of the Vietnam conflict. Having selfishly avoided military service during the 1960’s, he is happy subsequently to have at least served in the above part-time capacities. He was prompted to do so in part by many years of reconsideration of the facts; in part by his reaction to the many Vietnam veterans he treated in civilian capacity at the West Haven Veterans’ Administration Hospital whom he considered as a group to have both sacrificed more and actually done more on his behalf than he ever did on theirs. |
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Dr. Satinover was a 1974 William James Lecturer in Psychology and Religion at Harvard University. He is an invited scholar of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. He speaks widely to both public and professional audiences and is the author of numerous articles, chapters and books on topics ranging from brain neurophysiology to the psychology of narcissism to the breakdown of modern society. Dr. Satinover is a trustee of the Family Institute of Connecticut and on the Board of Directors of Toward Tradition. He serves on the scientific advisory board to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality and is a former medical advisor to Focus on the Family, board member of the Klingberg Family Centers in New Britain, Connecticut and past-President of the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York. He has been a plenary speaker at the (Jewish) Toward Tradition national conference and the keynote speaker at the (Catholic) Wanderer Forum Foundation annual conference. He has also been a featured speaker at Notre Dame University, Southern Methodist University and at the Exodus International Conference in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Satinover’s presentations have been broadcast regularly on C-Span. He is especially proud to have been asked to assist key United States Senators and their staffs in the ultimately successful battle to win confirmation for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. A founder of Connecticut’s Committee to Save Our Schools (CT:SOS), Dr. Satinover is also active nationwide in the resistance to so-called “Outcomes-Based Education” (i.e., O.B.E., under whatever name or acronym) and associated educational fads. Under his co-leadership, CT:SOS won a significant victory in the Connecticut legislature, resoundingly defeating a broad-based and well-funded coalition of government, educational unions and some major corporations (in particular, Union Carbide) in a covert attempt to have influence-padded state boards take over public education. “Academic-Based Education,” The CT:SOS program of alternate, traditionalist reforms co-authored by Dr. Satinover, was ignored in Connecticut but formally adopted by the Board of Education of San Diego, California, the nation’s sixth largest public school system. |
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In 1987, Dr. Satinover founded and directed the Sterling Institute for Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Medicine in Stamford, Connecticut, comprised of 30 multi-disciplinary professionals (MD, PhD, MSW) and support staff. The Institute was awarded “Accreditation with Commendation” by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, achieved by fewer than 5% of hospitals nationwide. The Institute maintained programs for the treatment of affective disorders, addictions and dementias and with researchers from Yale and the Clarke Institute of Montreal collected data from over 2,000 patients on the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease, one of the largest such investigations. |
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After a nearly thirty-year hiatus, Dr. Satinover is now at Yale in the doctoral program in physics, his field of original interest. Under the guidance of Erich Poppitz (as of 2001 at the University of Toronto) he pursued independent theoretical studies of how supersymmetric spin chains might be used for relatively decoherence-free quantum information processing. He also participated in the Cerenkov Ring Imaging Detector team at Yale and at the Brookhaven National Laboratory RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider). He is currently a graduate student member of the Condensed Matter Theory Group at Yale (under the direction of Prof. Steven Girvin) working with the DeMille Group on the mathematical theory and actual construction of a ~4,000 qubit quantum computation device based on ultra-cold trapped heteronuclear polar molecules. Dr. Satinover was recently the keynote speaker at the “Dynamic Silicon” conference in San Francisco that focused on the emergence of adaptive logic hardware. He authored and continues to develop statistical, neural-network and genetic-algorithm investment models. He programs in C/C++ and Mathematica. |