Eugene G. d'Aquili (born 1940) was a research psychiatrist who specialized in studying members of religious communities (e.g., brain image scans).
The former clinic patients with anti-social behaviour were considerably more often diagnosed by the research psychiatrists as having a sociopathic personality than were the comparison group.
After working as a research psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health, he became an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard in 1967.
Comparison of team diagnosis with independent formal assessment and consensus diagnosis by research psychiatrists.
There was no significant difference between medical and non-medical team members in their diagnostic performance compared with the research psychiatrists.
To control for primacy effects, approximately half of the cases were interviewed by the research psychiatrist before the team assessment, and the remainder afterwards.
In addition, two-thirds of the patients were diagnosed by the research psychiatrists as having dementia, mainly due to Alzheimer's disease.
I spoke with neuroscientists, research psychiatrists and practicing therapists.
"A lot of people like their therapist and sit around talking but not getting better," says James Johnson, a research psychiatrist at the NIMH.
Hester was a research psychiatrist and met Martin in 1952 when she was profiling a murderer.