Licensed Psychologist
About
Jack Saul, Ph.D. is a New York State licensed psychologist and family therapist providing therapeutic services for individuals, couples, and families in Manhattan.
He is the director of the International Trauma Studies Program (ITSP), a research and training institute based in New York City. ITSP is committed to enhancing the natural resilience and coping capacities in individuals, families, and communities that have endured and/or are threatened by traumatic events - domestic and political violence, armed conflict, and natural disaster.
As a psychologist, he has created a number of psychosocial programs for populations that have endured war, torture, and political violence in New York City. He is known for his innovative work with families and communities that integrates testimony, healing, media, and the performance arts. In 1995, he co-founded the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and was its clinical director until 1998 when he founded the International Trauma Studies Program at NYU School of Medicine. In 1999, he established Refuge, a community-based program for survivors of torture and refugee trauma, and a member of the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs. Following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, Refuge established the FEMA funded Downtown Community Resource Center, a community-based psychosocial program for residents and workers in downtown New York.
Dr. Saul has served on the faculties of New York University School of Medicine - Department of Psychiatry, the New School for Social Research, Clinical Psychology Program, and Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. He has wide international experience as a lecturer and teacher on psychosocial responses to traumatic events, including being a member of the faculty of the Open Society Institute’s East European Program on Child Abuse in Budapest, and the Kosovar Family Professional Education Collaborative at the University of Prishtina. Dr. Saul has participated in numerous workgroups and research review committees including the American Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent, the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the International Criminal Court, the International Organization for Migration, the National Institute for Mental Health, and the Centers for Disease Control.
He works internationally with reporters and photographers on covering war and survivors of severe human rights violations, and with humanitarian, legal, and media organizations on the development and implementation of staff welfare programs. He completed his doctoral degree at Boston University and clinical internship in child and family therapy at the Judge Baker Guidance Clinic, Harvard Medical School. He is the recipient of the 2008 American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished Contribution to Social Justice, and the 2002 Marion Langer Award for Human Rights and Social Change of the American Association for Orthopsychiatry. His book Collective Trauma, Collective Healing: Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster was re-published by Routledge in it’s Mental Health Classics Series in 2022.