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James Arnold Brussel (1905-1982) - American forensic psychiatrist

James Arnold Brussel is considered the creator of the first modern characteristics of an unknown crime perpetrator and the founding father of criminal profiling.

Born in New York City, to Amelius S. Brussel and Rose Brussel, Brussel attended the University of Pennsylvania before beginning his psychiatry career with the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene in the 1930s. He had performed counterintelligence profiling work during World War II and the Korean War.

Brussel’s medical specialty was psychiatry, the treatment of mental and emotional disorder, he was an early pioneer on criminal profiling and one of the first to use it in criminal investigations notably in the New York “Mad Bomber” case of the 1950s and later the “Boston Strangler” case.

Among most widely held works by James A Brussel
*Casebook of a crime psychiatrist
*The layman's dictionary of psychiatry
*The layman's guide to psychiatry
*Understanding and overcoming depression
*The physician's concise handbook of psychiatry
James Arnold Brussel (1905-1982) - American forensic psychiatrist

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