Dr. med. Hans Steiner Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Emeritus Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resume available Online CONTACT INFORMATION • Alternate Contact Direct Line Tel (650)-723-5507 Bio ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS • Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Director, Program in Psychiatry & The Law, (2010- present) • Founding Member & Director, Pegasus Physycians at Stanford, (2008- present) HONORS AND AWARDS • Fellow, American Psychiatric Association (1992) • One of 327 Best Mental Health Experts, Good Housekeeping (1994) 2 OF 9 PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION • Dr. med. univ. (M.D.), University of Vienna, Austria , Medicine (1972) COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL WORK • Mental Health in Unaccompanied Minor Refugees, Vienna, Austria LINKS • My private website: http://www.hanssteiner.com • Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford: http://pegasusphysicians.com Research & Scholarship CURRENT RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY INTERESTS Dr. Steiner's predominant interest is the application of Humanistic principles to the practice of Medicine and Psychiatry. Dr Steiner is the director and a founding member of the PEGASUS PHYSICIAN WRITERS at Stanford, a working group of over 100 Stanford physicians who also write creatively. The group meets monthly and dscusses writing proposals, poetry, novels and trade books in progress. Most members of the group have an extensive Page 1 of 2 Dr. med. Hans Steiner http://cap.stanford.edu/profiles/Hans_Steiner/ publication record. The group is open to physicians who write creatively, including medical students, trainees and undergraduates exploring medicine as a career. We ask prospective members to send a current CV and writing sample. They also should indicate which specific project they are currently working on. The group can be reached by e mailing Dr. Steiner at Stanford or via his private website at: www.hanssteiner.com. Dr. Steiner directs Stanford's Program in Psychiatry & The Law. He is an expert in Forensic Psychiatry, aiming to bring Medicine to crime and criminals, as well as their victims and their families. He is particularly interested in freedom of will, culpability and its relationship to psychopathology. Dr. Steiner's empirical research is based on developmental approaches to psychopathology which emphasize the conjoint study of normative and non-normative phenomena, and the complex interaction of biological, psychological and social variables in the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.He has published extensively on the details of this model and has applied it to the study of normal and abnormal aggression, responses to stress and traumatic events, and the mental processes helping people adjust to adversity across the life span. Teaching COURSES 2021-22 • Your Secret Mind: Getting to Know and Living with your Unconscious: PSYC 53N (Win) 2020-21 • Your Secret Mind: Getting to Know and Living with your Unconscious: PSYC 53N (Win) 2019-20 • Mental Health in Collegiate Athletes: PSYC 78N (Win) 2018-19 • Mental Health in Collegiate Athletes: PSYC 78N (Win) 2 OF 4 GRADUATE AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS • Psychiatry and Behavioral Science (Fellowship Program) Publications PUBLICATIONS • Defense mechanism is predicted by attachment and mediates the maladaptive influence of insecure attachment on adolescent mental health CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY Laczkovics, C., Fonzo, G., Bendixsen, B., Shpigel, E., Lee, I., Skala, K., Prunas, A., Gross, J., Steiner, H., Huemer, J. 2020; 39 (4): 1388–96 • Your Secret Mind: Getting to Know and Living With Your Unconscious Steiner, H., Hall, R. Karnac Books.2017 2 OF 172 Page 2 of 2.