Dr. Alan J. Lipman has served as a professor at Georgetown University, The George Washington University, and Rutgers University, and has also held positions at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Psychiatric Institute. At Georgetown, he founded the Center for the Study of Violence as well as the Georgetown Youth Violence Summit.

Dr. Lipman also served as Co-Chairman of the Academic Advisory Council of the White House Campaign Against Youth Violence, initiated at a White House summit during the Clinton Administration. He has also served as a consultant on the effects of September 11, 2001 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and to the U.S. Department of State.

Dr. Lipman is an expert in the areas of violence, violent behavior, crime, and terrorism, as well as in the general areas of psychology and psychotherapy. In the area of terrorism, he has been a prominent commentator on the causes and effects of the September 11, 2001 terrorism events and subsequent anthrax attacks in the United States; on the psychology of terrorists and terrorist accomplices, such as Zacarias Moussaoui, on the causes of terrorist-driven events such as the Jill Carroll kidnapping; and on the social effects of terrorism such as fear, panic, as well as travel and airline avoidance. Dr. Lipman is also a frequent commentator on U.S. crime and violence, including commentary on the causes of notable cases of homicide, murder and manslaughter; on school shootings such as Virginia Tech and Columbine; on family homicide; on white collar crime and on workplace and community violence.

Dr. Lipman is author on 15 publications in professional journals, has served as an Invited Peer Reviewer for the American Psychological Association, and as an Expert in Psychology for publishers such as McGraw Hill, Prentice Hall and Allyn and Bacon, and has been frequently interviewed by such publications and organizations as CNN, BBC, NBC, ABC, and CBS News, Court TV, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, Agence France Press, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, and The National Post regarding articles on violence, crime, and terrorism.

In addition to his doctorate, Lipman also holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was also named to the the American Criminal Law Review.

Violence: School and Mass Shootings; Causes of School and Mass Shootings; Psychology of School/Mass Shootings; Shootings and Mental Illness (Virginia Tech, Denver/Colorado Springs, Omaha, Columbine, Pearl, Jonesboro, Paducka, Nickle Mines, Springfield; College and University Violence; Adult Violence; Child and Adolescent Violence; Homicide; Violence Prevention and Treatment; Terrorism; Law and Psychology; Psychotherapy: Psychotherapy/Pharmacotherapy Comparative Outcome Research; Marital/Couples Therapy; Depression; Anxiety; Work Stress; Life Transitions; Family and Personality Theory; Health and Prevention: Protective Health Behaviors; Effective Treatment; Comparative Therapies.

Research, Selected Presentations, Manuscripts, and Publications

Lipman, A.J. Fear Itself: Learning to Understand and Respond to Fear and Threat. Washington, D.C.

Lipman, A.J. Prevention of Youth Violence: Effective Approaches. National Campaign Against Youth Violence/Georgetown Center for the Study of Violence. Washington, D.C.

Lipman, A.J. Effective Approaches to Social Marketing: Applications to Youth Violence. National Campaign Against Youth Violence/Georgetown Center for the Study of Violence, Washington, D.C.

Lipman, A.J. The Psychology of Hate. International Society for Political Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Lipman, A.J. Mass Media Portrayals (Chair). International Society for Political Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Lipman, A.J. An Epidemic of Blindness. Georgetown Youth Violence Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Lipman, A.J. Causal Factors in Youth Violence. National Campaign Against Youth Violence and the Ad Council, New York, NY.

Lipman, A.J. A Multifactor Model of Youth Violence. Catholic University, Columbus School of Law, Washington, D.C.

Lipman, A.J. Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Contemporary Psychology, 40, 646-47.

Lipman, A.J. The Complete Case History Redux: Towards an Integration of Etiological Theories and Treatment Approaches. Contemporary Psychology, 37, 793-94.

Lipman, A.J. Understanding Abnormal Psychology: A Review of the Text. Contemporary Psychology, 36, 381-82.

Lipman, A.J. Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain. Current Psychological Research and Reviews, 9, 88-89.

Lipman, A.J. Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age. Current Psychological Research and Reviews, 9, 87-88.

Lipman, A.J. Self-Psychology: Comparisons and Contrasts. Current Psychological Research and Reviews, 9, 94-95.

Lipman, A.J. Causal Attribution in Offspring of Alcoholics. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 7, 31-46.