Jerrold Post, M.D.

Member of the Board
Chief Scientist, Political Psychology
Phone: (202) 994-7386
Email: jerrold dot post at c4ads dot org

Dr. Jerrold Post is Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs and Director of the Political Psychology Program at The George Washington University (GWU).

Dr. Post has devoted his entire career to the field of political psychology. Dr. Post joined GWU after a 21-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he founded and directed the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior, an interdisciplinary behavioral science unit which provided assessments of foreign leadership and decision making for the President and other senior officials to prepare for Summit meetings and other high level negotiations and for use in crisis situations. He played the lead role in developing the "Camp David profiles" of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat for President Jimmy Carter and initiated the US government program in understanding the psychology of terrorism. In recognition of his leadership at the Center, Dr. Post was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit in 1979, and received the Studies in Intelligence Award in 1980. He received the Nevitt Sanford Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Political Psychology in 2002.

A founding member of the International Society of Political Psychology, Dr. Post was elected Vice-President in 1994, and has served on the editorial board of Political Psychology since 1987. A Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he has been elected to the American College of Psychiatrists and is currently Chair of the APA's Task Force for National and International Terrorism and Violence.

Featured publications
The Mind of the Terrorist Jerrold M. Post Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Know Thy Enemy : Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures Barry R. Sneider and Jerrold M. Post (eds.) Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2004
Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of Political Behavior Jerrold M. Post Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004
The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders: With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton Jerrold M. Post (ed.) Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003
"Killing in the name of God: Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda" Jerrold M. Post (ed.) USAF Counterproliferation Center, Counterproliferation Papers, 2002
Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The Al-Qaeda Training Manual Jerrold M. Post Frank Cass & Co, 2002
Saddam is Iraq: Iraq is Saddam Jerrold M. Post (ed.) USAF Counterproliferation Center, Counterproliferation Papers, 2002
"Presidential Personality and Performance" Jerrold M. Post (ed.) Congress & the Presidency 27.1: 101-103, June 2002
"Inside the Mind of the Insider: Profiling employees for Potential Malicious Behavior" Eric D. Shaw, Jerrold M. Post and Keven G. Ruby Security Management 43.12: 34-51, December 1999
Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997
"More than a Figure of Speech: Evaluating the Potential Escalation of Hate Letters into Bodily Harm" Jerrold M. Post Security Management 40.12: 38-43, December 1996
When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993