Walter Reich
George Washington University
Washington, DC/USA

Walter Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and a former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Dr. Reich also holds positions as Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale University and Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Dr. Reich has written and lectured widely on terrorism, the Holocaust and genocide, human rights, national memory, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, psychiatry, national and international affairs, and medical ethics. He is the author of A Stranger in My House: Jews and Arabs in the West Bank and the editor of Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind. His articles, essays and chapters have appeared in scholarly and scientific publications as well as in such newspapers and magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Sun, Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic, Slate, Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Asharq al-Awsat, Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post. He is a Contributing Editor of The Wilson Quarterly and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes. And he has been interviewed in his areas of expertise on the BBC, Voice of America, National Public Radio, Canadian Television, and Fox Television.

Working for the protection of human rights around the world since the early 1970s, Dr. Reich has been a Co-Chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists since 1995; was the Chair of the Committee on Human Rights of the American Psychiatric Association (1995-98); and was a member of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985-91).

Dr. Reich received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1965, studied philosophy as a graduate student at Columbia, and received his M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine in 1970. While in medical school, he studied at the National Hospital for Neurological Diseases of the University of London in Queen Square and with Anna Freud at the Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic in London. In 1973, following his internship in internal medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine and his psychiatric residency at the Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Reich joined the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, where he was a Senior Research Psychiatrist. At the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, he studied the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, the psychology of terrorism, and the scientific, ethical and public-policy dimensions of health. He founded and directed the Woodrow Wilson Center's Project on Health, Values and Public Policy and was then named the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a position he held from 1995 to 1998.

An Associate Fellow of Davenport College at Yale and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Reich has received numerous awards for his academic and other achievements from universities and other organizations. These include the 2004 Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association; the 2003 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a Special Presidential Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association in 1998 "in recognition of his distinguished leadership and scholarship as Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and of his being a renowned champion of Human Rights"; and the Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Award in Health Science from the New York University School of Medicine. He has been a Lustman Fellow at Yale and became a Founding Member of the Council on Global Terrorism in 2006.

Books

• A Stranger in My House: Jews and Arabs in the West Bank (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984).
• Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind (Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1990).

Selected Publications

• "King Herod's Return," The Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2007.
• "Shoah Survivor Kept Memories Alive," The Jewish Daily Forward, December 1, 2006.
• "Ethics of War," The New York Sun, August 10, 2006.
• "Palestinian Duplicity: The Sequel," The Wall Street Journal Europe, April 28, 2006, p. 11.
• "In Denial,"The Wall Street Journal Europe, March 2, 2006, p. 13.
• "Sharon the Father," The New York Sun, January 10, 2006, p. 11.
• "Something's Missing in Spielberg's Munich," The Washington Post, January 1, 2006, p. B5.
• "Brits Burning Books," The New York Sun, May 10, 2005, p. 9.
• "Yanks in the Holocaust," The New York Times Book Review, May 1, 2005, p. 24.
• "Making Art a Crime," The New York Post, March 26, 2005.
• "Useless Commemorations?," The New York Sun, January 27, 2005, p. 8.
• "Arafat's Flawed Vision," The Baltimore Sun, November 12, 2004, p. 19A.
• "Perspectives on Terrorism," in Henry Nau and David Shambaugh, eds Divided Diplomacy and the Next Administration: Conservative and Liberal Alternatives, (Washington, DC: Elliott School of International Affairs of The George Washington University, 2004), pp. 60-65.
• "A Trench Runs Through It: Why a New Holocaust Memorial Gets It Wrong," The New York Times, June 12, 2004, p. 13.
• "Religion and Repression," The Washington Post, May 30, 2004, p. B7.
• "Last Word in Anti-Semitism," The Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2004, p. 15.
• "The Enemy at the Gates," The New York Times Book Review, May 23, 2004, p. 14.
• "Placating the Al Qaeda Beast," The New York Sun, March 18, 2003, p. 9.
• "Silence Is Never the Answer,"The New York Sun, March 10, 2004, p. 9.
• "'Passion' Nurtures Seeds of Hatred," The Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2004, p. A17.
• "Right Idea, Wrong Holocaust Museum," The Los Angeles Times, August 18, 2003, p. B11.
• "He's a Beast, but He's Their Beast," The Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2003, Part 2, p. 17. Translated in Asharq al-Awsat (Arabic News: London and Beirut), April 16, 2003, p. 20.
• "An Arab Pilgrimage to Auschwitz," The Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2003, p. 6.
• "Surviving History," The Washington Post, March 16, 2003, p. B10.
• "Israelis Say No to Suicide," The Baltimore Sun, February 2, 2003, p. 5C.
• "To Stop Terror, First Recognize its True Source," The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 2002, p. 23A.
• "Himmler's Willing Executioners," The New York Times Book Review, June 30, 2002, p. 7.
• "Broaden U.N. Jenin Inquiry to Include Palestinians," The Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2002, p. 15.
• "Appropriating the Holocaust," The New York Times, March 15, 2002, p. A23.
• "All the Führer's Men," The New York Times Book Review, December 16, 2001.
• "Arafat Speaks Out of Both Sides of His Mouth," The Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2001, p. A13.
• "Holocaust Remembered: The News Went Nowhere," The Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2001, p. B11.
• "Pardon Reignites Jewish Stereotypes," The Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2001, p. M6.
• "Anti-Semitism is an Ancient Plague of Hatred," The Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2000, p. A15.
• "The Stakes in a Holocaust Trial," The New York Times, January 19, 2000, p. A25.
• "A Matter - and a Museum - of Conscience," The Washington Post, August 28, 1999, p. A19.
• "Die Grosse Lektion: Das Holocaust-Mahnmal braucht ein Museum," Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 14-15, 1999.
• "Despite Lapses, We Have Made Moral Progress Against Prejudice," The Los Angeles Times, July 19, 1998, p. A13.
• "Holocaust Remembrance: A Challenge for Our Time," Hashofar, June 25, 1999, pp. 2-3.
• "The Devil's Miracle Man," The New York Times Book Review, January 31, 1999. pp. 8-9.
• "Symbols of Christianity Give a Distorted Message at Auschwitz," The Los Angeles Times, November 6, 1998, p. A16.
• "An End to Symbols at Auschwitz," The Washington Post, September 8, 1998, p. A15.
• "Life Before Death: The Dimension of Time in the Kovno Ghetto," The Los Angeles Times, November 21, 1997, p. A11.
• "Guilty Long Ago," The New York Times Book Review, August 17, 1997, p. 26.
• "Holocaust's Child," The Washington Post, February 9, 1997, p. C7.
• "Rebel with a Cause," The New York Times Book Review, September 29, 1996, p. 22.
• "Lands Bathed in Blood: Bosnia Shows We Haven't Learned Holocaust's Lessons about Genocide," The Dallas Morning News, April 28, 1996, p. J1.
• "A Plan That's Bad to the Bone,"The Wall Street Journal, April 3, 1996, p. A14.
• "Witnesses to the Holocaust," The Washington Post Book World, March 24, 1996. pp. 1, 8-9.
• "Holocaust: The China Parallel," The Washington Post, January 24, 1996, p. A19.
• "In the Maw of the Death Machine," The New York Times Book Review, January 29, 1995, p. 1, 25-26.
• "Erasing the Holocaust," The New York Times Book Review, July 11, 1993, pp. 1, 31, 33-34.
• "Our Ability to Do Evil Equals Our Ability to Deny It," The Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1993, pp. M2 and M6.
• "The Men Who Pulled the Triggers," The New York Times Book Review, April 12, 1992, pp. 1, 25-27.
• "A Cash-and-Carry Offer for the New Nuclear Republics," The Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1991, p. B5.
• "The Anatomy of Evil," The Washington Post, August 2, 1991. p. B3.

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