Dan Kriegman, PhD – Long Bio

Daniel Kriegman, PhD, a psychologist and writer, was a founder of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England and a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He was the Chief Psychologist at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Offenders, as well as the Clinical Director for the maximum-security, intensive-treatment unit for adolescents in Boston. Kriegman is co-author (with Malcolm Slavin) of The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process. He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on topics related to the evolutionary understanding of human behavior and its interface with the theory and practice of psychotherapy. His most important work is THE BOOK OF WAR: The Evolutionary Biology of Racism, Religious Hatred, Nationalism, Terrorism, and Genocide, which has been described as a “A fascinating and expansive account of the evolutionary nature of warfare. Important reading for anyone interested in knowing more about the human desire for violence,” according to the neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, M.D. and “tremendously insightful … It has important implications for research on conflict resolution as well as for current policy debates … In the scope and sweep of its argument, the book is a magisterial accomplishment” according to Matthew Levinger, Ph.D., former Director of the Academy for Genocide Prevention at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr. Kriegman’s website.

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