Harold S Kudler

The nature and action of psychological trauma in producing posttraumatic stress disorders. The integration of psychoanalytic, descriptive, and biological perspectives on psychological trauma. The biological assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. The development of treatment guidelines for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Intergenerational effects of traumatic stress. The neurobiology of dreaming. Development of educational programs for mental health professionals that provide a practical synthesis of psychodynamic and descriptive psychiatric perspectives and clinical skills. The development of educational programs for the teaching of psychodynamic psychiatry including the supervision of psychodynamic psychotherapy. The history of psychiatry with special reference to the history of the concept of psychological trauma.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Medical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences · 2025 - Present Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

In the News

Published June 26, 2013

What Is PTSD…And Who Is It For?

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Recent Publications

Associations among social determinants of health and opioid use disorder and overdose: An umbrella review.

Journal Article Am J Addict · May 2026 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In 2022, over 6 million individuals in the United States were affected by opioid use disorder (OUD), and more than 81,000 died from opioid-related overdoses. This umbrella review synthesized evidence on the associations between a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Life After Retirement, "Re-firement," Un-retirement, and Pre-retirement: Experiences of Four Psychiatrists.

Journal Article Psychodyn Psychiatry · March 2026 For health care professionals, especially psychiatrists, retirement is not a narrowly defined process. Retirement only means the end of a specific work-related job. It is closely related to aging although the impact of aging on the body and mind varies. In ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reloading the Matrix: An Integration of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches.

Journal Article Psychiatry · 2025 Full text Link to item Cite

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Recent Grants

Predicting firearm suicide in military veterans outside the VA health system using linked civilian electronic health record data

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2023 - 2027

Fluoxetine Treatment Of Posttraumatic Disorder

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1993 - 1998

Fluoxetine Treatment Of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1993 - 1997

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Education

State University of New York, Brooklyn · 1979 M.D.