Prof. K. Elan Jung, MD, the author of the new book Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity, has been a practicing psychiatrist, treating patients on a daily basis, for almost forty years, and a researcher and professor of psychiatry at The Albany Medical College. He was also a military surgeon in Vietnam, an E.R. physician as well as a general practitioner before becoming a psychiatrist.
The honors he has received include:
- Award Of Appreciation, Albany Medical College, 1982
- Physicians Recognition Award, American Medical Association 1988
- New York Physician of the Year, 2006
- Congressional medal of distinction, 2006
- America’s Top Psychiatrists Award, 2005, 2006
- New York State Senate Liberty Award, 2009
- The Leading Physicians of the World, 2009.
He has published in professional journals and contributed subchapters to the book Tardive Dyskensia, published in 1980 by the Spectrum Press of New York, and presented papers at scientific conferences. He is Founding Fellow of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists, a Diplomat of the American Psychiatric Association, and Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners. He supervises the Psychotherapy Center in Queensbury, New York. His other writing interests include a screenplay he has written, Primal Scream.
