Harvey Schlossberg (January 27, 1936 – May 21, 2021) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, Freudian psychoanalyst, and the founder of modern crisis negotiation. He founded the Psychological Services Department in the NYPD, where he …

May 27, 2021 · Harvey Schlossberg, a former New York City traffic cop with a doctorate in psychology who choreographed what became a model law enforcement strategy for safely ending standoffs with hostage...

Nov 9, 2018 · Harvey Schlossberg might have explained that the team, which was the first of its kind in the world, was formed in response to a series of events in the early 1970s—the Attica prison riots, the terrorist attack on the Munich Olympics, and the botched Brooklyn bank robbery that inspired the Al Pacino movie, Dog Day Afternoon—in which the ...

Schlossberg recommended what he called crisis intervention, today known as critical incident debriefing, a group therapy session. Dr. Schlossberg says it is vital that this is done within 72 hours of a traumatic event.

Memorializes Harvey Schlossberg (1936–2021). Author of Psychologist With a Gun (1974), Schlossberg was the first New York Police Department (NYPD) police officer with a PhD in psychology, and a pioneer in police psychology.

Oct 28, 2020 · A new documentary film, Hold Your Fire, which chronicles the groundbreaking research and life work of Harvey Schlossberg, Ph.D., a veteran New York City Police Department (NYPD) psychologist—and a long-serving and recently retired professor at St. John’s University—was recently awarded the second annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken ...

May 28, 2021 · Harvey Schlossberg, a former New York City traffic cop with a doctorate in psychology who choreographed what became a model law enforcement strategy for safely ending standoffs with hostage takers, died on May 21 in Brooklyn. He was 85.

May 27, 2022 · Harvey Schlossberg, the police psychologist see in the new documentary "Hold Your Fire," helped shift the way that hostage situations are handled by the NYPD.

Retired Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and husband of Antoinette Collarini-Schlossberg, Ph.D., Chair and Associate Professor, Division of Criminal Justice, Legal Studies, and Homeland Security

May 28, 2021 · A psychologist who had worn the blue, he coached thousands of New York City police officers in hostage negotiations, creating a model for law enforcement.Harvey Schlossberg, a former New York City traffic cop with a doctorate in psychology who choreographed what became a model law enforcement strategy for safely ending standoffs with hostage ...