Diagnosis Missing: The FBI Should Monitor Its Agents’ Mental Health

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 [...]

Tragedy in the Home

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

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

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 [...]

How to Survive Torture

How to Survive Torture
MAXIM
September 2001
Alen J. Salerian, MD quoted