Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry - About the Authors

Benjamin James Sadock, M.D.

Benjamin James Sadock, M.D. is currently a professor and vice chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. He graduated from Union College in 1955 and received his M.D. from New York Medical College in 1959.

After an internship at Albany Hospital, he completed his residency at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and then entered military service, where he served as Assistant Chief and Acting Chief of Neuropsychiatry at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. He held faculty and teaching appointments at Southwestern Medical School and Parkland Hospital in Dallas and at New York Medical College, St. Luke's Hospital, the Residency Training Program in Psychiatry, and director of Graduate Medical Education.Since 1980, Dr. Sadock has been director of Student Mental Health Services, psychiatric consultant to the Admissions Committee, and codirector of Continuing Education in Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. He is on the staff of Bellevue Hospital and Tisch Hospital (the University Hospital of the NYU Medical Center) and is consultant psychiatrist at Lenox Hill Hospital.

Dr. Sadock became a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1966 and served as an assistant and associate examiner for the Board for over a decade. He is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Physicians, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He is also a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He is active in numerous psychiatric organizations and is president and founder of the NYU-Bellevue Psychiatric Society.

Dr. Sadock was a member of the National Committee on Continuing Education in Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association, served on the Ad Hoc Committee on Sex Therapy Clinics of the American Medical Association, was delegate to the Conference on Recertification of the American Board of Medical Specialists, and was representative of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. In 1985 he received the Academic Achievement Award from New York Medical College. He is author or editor of more than 100 publications, including the books listed here, and is a book reviewer for psychiatric journals.

He is married to Virginia Alcott Sadock, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Graduate Education in Human Sexuality at NYU Medical Center. They live in Manhattan and have an active private practice specializing in individual psychotherapy, group therapy, sex and marital therapy, and pharmacotherapy. They have two children James and Victoria. Dr. Sadock is an opera lover, a skier and an avid fly-fisherman.