Washington Center For Psychiatry

By Alen J. Salerian, MD
Richmond Times
February 24, 2009
Sometime in the near future, modern psychiatry’s unborn holy book, the DSM-V, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, will arrive. In fact, an early draft of the fifth edition of this guidebook of diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, which mental health professionals, researchers, health insurance companies, [...]

From kings to criminals, politicians to prostitutes, Dr. Alen J. Salerian explored the darker edges of the human mind as a high-profile psychiatrist. But he had no idea just how dark it could get-until he was sent to interview a mass murderer 15 years ago.

The Washington Post – Outlook Section
March 11, 2001
By Alen J. Salerian, MD
In the mid-1990s, the FBI sent me to a Southern city to do a psychological evaluation of one of its undercover agents. The reason: The agent was having an affair with a member of the criminal organization he was investigating.
I spent about a week [...]

By Alen J. Salerian, MD
I have a simple question for my 50,000 and some psychiatric colleagues who gathered in San Diego at the annual American Psychiatric Association’s meeting: Does it matter to say, “I’m sorry?”
The capacity to acknowledge past error is a reliable measure of human progress. Modern Germany acknowledged their wrong against Jews, Gypsies [...]

Tragedy in the Home
WUSA9.com
April 4, 2007
Alen J. Salerian, MD quoted
By Leslie Foster
(WUSA) — Parents taking their own children’s lives, then their own. It seems unthinkable. In just over a week, two communities and two families know all two well that it can happen. Last week, a Frederick father killed his four kids then [...]

Behavioral Scientists Gather in Washington, DC
The Armenian Reporter International
October 1, 2005
(about Alen J. Salerian, MD’s reception of an award)
On Friday evening, August 19, 2005, Armenian psychologists convened at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel for the seventeenth gathering of the Armenian Behavioral Science Association (ABSA). This two-part gathering was part of the 113th annual convention of [...]

Freedom Corrodes Terror’s Foundation
The Baltimore Sun
2002
By Alen J. Salerian, MD
In the war on terrorism, we face a new enemy – suicidal killers who kill in the name of God and rejoice not just in the deaths of their victims, but in their own deaths. To fight these killers we must better understand how their minds [...]