Alan W. Scheflin holds a B.A. with High Honors in Philosophy from the University of Virginia. a J.D. with Honors from the George Washington University Law School, an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School, and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University. He has taught in the Law School and the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California Law School.

Professor Scheflin's second book, The Mind Manipulators (1978), was published in several countries. Trance on Trial (1989), his third book, received the American Psychiatric Association's 1991 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award as the year's most outstanding publication on forensic psychiatry. His fourth book, Clinical Hypnosis and Memory: Guidelines for Clinicians and for Forensic Hypnosis (1995), received the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis Arthur Shapiro Award for "Book of the Year" for 1995. Professor Scheflin's fifth book, Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law (1998) received the American Psychiatric Association's 1999 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award, the Arthur Shapiro Award from the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation's 1998 Distinguished Merit Award. Law and Mental Disorder, his sixth book, was published in 1998. He has authored more than fifty articles, book chapters and book reviews on psychological, psychiatric and legal issues.

Professor Scheflin provided testimony to Congress and the California legislature. He has been judicially recognized in federal and/or state courts as an expert on legal ethics, memory, suggestion and suggestibility, hypnosis, and mind and behavior control. He has delivered more than 100 invited addresses and workshops at all of the major American professional hypnosis organizations, at many international hypnosis organizations, at the American Psychiatric Association, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Family Foundation, and other professional mental health and legal organizations. In 1999 Professor Scheflin was voted a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Professor Scheflin is an Advisory Editor of the Cultic Studies Journal, an Advisory Science Editor of the Journal of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and has been a Guest Co-Editor of the Journal of Psychiatry & Law. He is currently the Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law & Mental Disability.

Professor Scheflin is the recipient of the following Awards:

2002 - International Society for the Study of Dissociation, Morton Prince Award for Scientific Achievement.
2002 - Santa Clara University School of Law, Distinguished Scholarship Award.
2002 - Santa Clara University, Sustained Excellence in Scholarship Award.
2001 - American Psychological Association, Division 30 (hypnosis), Distinguished Contribution to Professional Hypnosis Award.
2001 - American Board of Psychological Hypnosis, Professional Recognition Award.
2000 - Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Arthur Shapiro Award.
1999 - American Psychiatric Association, Manfred S. Guttmacher Award.
1998 - International Society for the Study of Dissociation. Distinguished Achievement Award.
1998 - American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Award of Merit.
1998 - American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Presidential Award.
1996 - Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Arthur Shapiro Award.
1993 - American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Irving I. Secter Award.
1991 - American Psychiatric Association, Manfred S. Guttmacher Award.

He has taught in the Law School and the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California Law School.

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