Alan Lipman

Dr. Alan J. Lipman is a licensed clinical psychologist in practice in Washington, DC, who is known for his appearances on MSNBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, NBC Evening News, Court TV, and the BBC. 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 spousal murder; on school shootings; on family homicide; on white collar crime and on workplace and community violence. Cases in which the analysis of Dr. Lipman has been prominent include the Virginia Tech massacre, the shootings at Columbine, Jonesboro, Nickel Mines, Paducah, Springfield, Oregon, and Pearl, Mississippi; the Mark Barton family homicide; the case of Claude Allen, the White House staffer arrested in 2006; the Washington, DC and Ohio sniper shootings; the Han shootings of 2006; and the national trials and cases of Simpson, Peterson et al.

Accomplishments
Dr. 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. He lectures both nationally and internationally on the subjects of violence, crime, terrorism, and their causes, after-effects, and prevention.

In the media
Dr. Lipman is author of 15 publications in professional journals, and has been frequently interviewed by such publications and organizations as The Washington Post, the Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, 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.