Jeffrey Satinover
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Jeffrey Burke Satinover is an American psychiatrist
, psychoanalyst, and physicist
. He is well-known for books on a number of controversial topics in physics and neuroscience, and on religion, but especially for his writing and public-policy efforts relating to homosexuality
, same-sex marriage
and the ex-gay movement. Copies of his best-selling 1996 Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth were distributed to all bishops attending the 1998 Lambeth
Anglican Communion
Conference and his work is widely-used and cited as one of the main modern sources supporting the view that homosexuality is a changeable, non-innate condition, though not a matter of choice. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Science and Mathematics at The King's College, New York City, a private Christian college maintained by the leading evangelical Christian organization Campus Crusade for Christ, and a Visiting Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich. He also teaches at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich
. He was the youngest person ever to have delivered the William James Lectures
at Harvard. He has written widely on subjects such as narcissism
, religious history, cryptology, psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, complex systems theory, physics and finance.
Satinover won a National Merit Scholarship to M.I.T, where he obtained a B.S. in 1971 at the age of 25. He subsequently obtained his an Ed.M. in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University
, and his M.D. at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and later an M.S.
in physics at Yale University
. He completed psychoanalytic training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Zürich, their youngest-ever graduate. In 2008 he completed a Ph.D. in physics (summa cum laude) at the University of Nice, France.
Satinover is a former state flight surgeon. He served in the 1/169th combat-support helicopter battalion of the Connecticut Army National Guard, and was also an Army Reserve Psychiatrist (rank of major). He practiced clinical psychiatry between 1986 and 2003, and psychoanalysis between 1976 and 2003, having trained early in his career as a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich.
In 1974 Satinover was the William James Lecturer in Psychology and Religion at Harvard University
. He is a past-President of the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York. He is a former fellow (resident) in psychiatry and child Psychiatry at Yale where he was twice awarded the department of psychiatry’s Seymour Lustman Residency ReJeffsearch Prize (2nd place). After twenty-five years in the medical and psychotherapeutic arena, he returned to school.
2008 he completed a Ph.D. in physics (summa cum laude) at the University of Nice, France.
, minority game). His prior areas of physics research are in fundamental quantum theory and in its application to quantum information processing and computation. Presently he is investigating certain aspects of game theory in complex systems.
Jeffrey Satinover is accredited Jungian analyst and teaching at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich
, belongs to the scientific staff of the Department of Management, Technology and Economics of the ETH Zurich
and is visiting professor at The King's College
He is the author of articles, chapters and books on topics ranging from brain neurophysiology to the psychology of narcissism to the breakdown of modern society. His book The Quantum Brain explores current developments at the interface of physics, computation, artificial intelligence and neuroscience (April, 2001, Wiley). The book is written for a general but well-educated readership.
He has appeared in the media and before various American state and federal institutions as a policy advisor with respect to the nature of homosexuality, and also before the British Parliament; he has treated homosexuals seeking a change in sexual attraction, for which he has been criticised. He also played a role in the film What the Bleep Do We Know?!.
" (William Morrow & Co., 1996), a critical discussion of modern scientific analyses of the ancient tradition of hidden encryptions in the five books of Moses. It is more importantly the story of one of the most significant and invisible figures of the Holocaust, Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, whose rescue of tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, through two years of face-to-face negotiations with Himmler’s and Eichmann’s chief overseers in Eastern Europe, is almost entirely unknown to the world at large. The story of the “codes” provided a cover story for the more important history of Weissmandl. At the same time, the book includes previously undiscovered aspects of Renaissance history. For example, Satinover argues that the early cryptographic encoding wheels that Leon Battista Alberti appears to have come up with “out of nowhere” (as is conventionally stated), are copies of 1st century Kabbalistic devices that Alberti, along with other Neoplatonists and so-called “Christian Kabbalists” of the Florence Academy, Leonardo da Vinci
and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
among them, learned directly from Kabbalistic Rabbis of the era.
Satinover’s most widely read and debated book is Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth (Baker Book House, 1996; see Ex-gay
) The book is an analysis of the debate over homosexuality viewed from psychological, religious and scientific perspectives. The book was distributed to all bishops at the 1996 Lambeth conference, and at many other similar gatherings. He subsequently authored a number of monographs and critiques on related subjects. His testimony as parts of amicus curiae briefs have been cited in US State and Federal Supreme Court cases, in Canada, Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Though not an attorney, he has taught Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties at Princeton on the basis of this background.
Satinover's current scientific research, with Didier Sornette of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (see Stock Market Crash
), centers on studies of game theory and in particular the Minority Game, attending to the "illusion of control" in these games.
. Emmanuel Margolis, the then-president of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) holds Satinover chiefly responsible for Thomas’ confirmation.
A number of Satinover’s public policy speeches are available from C-Span.
A founder of Connecticut’s Committee to Save Our Schools (CT:SOS), Satinover was also active in the mid-1990s nationwide in the resistance to so-called “Outcomes-Based Education” (i.e., O.B.E., under whatever name or acronym) and associated educational “reforms.” Under his co-leadership, CT:SOS won a significant victory in the Connecticut legislature, defeating a broad-based coalition of government, educational unions and certain major corporations (in particular, Union Carbide) in their attempt to replace local and locally-elected school boards with a single state-appointed board. The CT:SOS program of alternate, traditionalist reforms co-authored by Satinover, “Academic-Based Education”, was ignored in Connecticut but formally adopted at the time by the Board of Education of San Diego, California, then the nation’s sixth largest public school system.
Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
, psychoanalyst, and physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
. He is well-known for books on a number of controversial topics in physics and neuroscience, and on religion, but especially for his writing and public-policy efforts relating to homosexuality
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same...
, same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage is marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender. Supporters of legal recognition for same-sex marriage typically refer to such recognition as marriage equality....
and the ex-gay movement. Copies of his best-selling 1996 Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth were distributed to all bishops attending the 1998 Lambeth
Lambeth
Lambeth is a district of south London, England, and part of the London Borough of Lambeth. It is situated southeast of Charing Cross.-Toponymy:...
Anglican Communion
Anglican Communion
The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches in full communion with the Church of England and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Conference and his work is widely-used and cited as one of the main modern sources supporting the view that homosexuality is a changeable, non-innate condition, though not a matter of choice. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Science and Mathematics at The King's College, New York City, a private Christian college maintained by the leading evangelical Christian organization Campus Crusade for Christ, and a Visiting Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich. He also teaches at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich
C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich
The C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland was founded in 1948 by the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of Analytical Psychology...
. He was the youngest person ever to have delivered the William James Lectures
William James Lectures
The William James Lectures are a series of invited lectureships at Harvard University sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, who alternate in the selection of speakers. The series was created in honor of the American Pragmatist philosopher William James, a former faculty member...
at Harvard. He has written widely on subjects such as narcissism
Narcissism
Narcissism is a term with a wide range of meanings, depending on whether it is used to describe a central concept of psychoanalytic theory, a mental illness, a social or cultural problem, or simply a personality trait...
, religious history, cryptology, psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, complex systems theory, physics and finance.
Biography
Satinover was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 4, 1947 to Joseph and Sena Satinover. He lived in Chicago and the surround until moving to California at the beginning of his high-school years. He demonstrated an early interest in physics.Satinover won a National Merit Scholarship to M.I.T, where he obtained a B.S. in 1971 at the age of 25. He subsequently obtained his an Ed.M. in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, and his M.D. at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and later an M.S.
Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
in physics at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. He completed psychoanalytic training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Zürich, their youngest-ever graduate. In 2008 he completed a Ph.D. in physics (summa cum laude) at the University of Nice, France.
Satinover is a former state flight surgeon. He served in the 1/169th combat-support helicopter battalion of the Connecticut Army National Guard, and was also an Army Reserve Psychiatrist (rank of major). He practiced clinical psychiatry between 1986 and 2003, and psychoanalysis between 1976 and 2003, having trained early in his career as a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich.
In 1974 Satinover was the William James Lecturer in Psychology and Religion at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. He is a past-President of the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York. He is a former fellow (resident) in psychiatry and child Psychiatry at Yale where he was twice awarded the department of psychiatry’s Seymour Lustman Residency ReJeffsearch Prize (2nd place). After twenty-five years in the medical and psychotherapeutic arena, he returned to school.
2008 he completed a Ph.D. in physics (summa cum laude) at the University of Nice, France.
Work
He is currently conducting research in complex and agent-based systems theory (econophysicsEconophysics
Econophysics is an interdisciplinary research field, applying theories and methods originally developed by physicists in order to solve problems in economics, usually those including uncertainty or stochastic processes and nonlinear dynamics...
, minority game). His prior areas of physics research are in fundamental quantum theory and in its application to quantum information processing and computation. Presently he is investigating certain aspects of game theory in complex systems.
Jeffrey Satinover is accredited Jungian analyst and teaching at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich
C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich
The C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland was founded in 1948 by the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of Analytical Psychology...
, belongs to the scientific staff of the Department of Management, Technology and Economics of the ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
and is visiting professor at The King's College
He is the author of articles, chapters and books on topics ranging from brain neurophysiology to the psychology of narcissism to the breakdown of modern society. His book The Quantum Brain explores current developments at the interface of physics, computation, artificial intelligence and neuroscience (April, 2001, Wiley). The book is written for a general but well-educated readership.
He has appeared in the media and before various American state and federal institutions as a policy advisor with respect to the nature of homosexuality, and also before the British Parliament; he has treated homosexuals seeking a change in sexual attraction, for which he has been criticised. He also played a role in the film What the Bleep Do We Know?!.
Writing and ideas
Satinover’s previous writings also include "Cracking the Bible CodeBible code
The Bible code , also known as the Torah code, is a purported set of secret messages encoded within the text Hebrew Bible and describing prophesies and other guidance regarding the future. This hidden code has been described as a method by which specific letters from the text can be selected to...
" (William Morrow & Co., 1996), a critical discussion of modern scientific analyses of the ancient tradition of hidden encryptions in the five books of Moses. It is more importantly the story of one of the most significant and invisible figures of the Holocaust, Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, whose rescue of tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, through two years of face-to-face negotiations with Himmler’s and Eichmann’s chief overseers in Eastern Europe, is almost entirely unknown to the world at large. The story of the “codes” provided a cover story for the more important history of Weissmandl. At the same time, the book includes previously undiscovered aspects of Renaissance history. For example, Satinover argues that the early cryptographic encoding wheels that Leon Battista Alberti appears to have come up with “out of nowhere” (as is conventionally stated), are copies of 1st century Kabbalistic devices that Alberti, along with other Neoplatonists and so-called “Christian Kabbalists” of the Florence Academy, Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of...
among them, learned directly from Kabbalistic Rabbis of the era.
Satinover’s most widely read and debated book is Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth (Baker Book House, 1996; see Ex-gay
Ex-gay
The ex-gay movement consists of people and organizations that seek to get people to refrain from entering or pursuing same-sex relationships, to eliminate homosexual desires, to develop heterosexual desires, or to enter into a heterosexual relationship...
) The book is an analysis of the debate over homosexuality viewed from psychological, religious and scientific perspectives. The book was distributed to all bishops at the 1996 Lambeth conference, and at many other similar gatherings. He subsequently authored a number of monographs and critiques on related subjects. His testimony as parts of amicus curiae briefs have been cited in US State and Federal Supreme Court cases, in Canada, Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Though not an attorney, he has taught Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties at Princeton on the basis of this background.
Satinover's current scientific research, with Didier Sornette of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (see Stock Market Crash
Stock market crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors...
), centers on studies of game theory and in particular the Minority Game, attending to the "illusion of control" in these games.
Political engagement
Satinover was asked to assist key United States Senators and their staffs in the ultimately successful battle to win confirmation for Supreme Court Justice Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court....
. Emmanuel Margolis, the then-president of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) holds Satinover chiefly responsible for Thomas’ confirmation.
A number of Satinover’s public policy speeches are available from C-Span.
A founder of Connecticut’s Committee to Save Our Schools (CT:SOS), Satinover was also active in the mid-1990s nationwide in the resistance to so-called “Outcomes-Based Education” (i.e., O.B.E., under whatever name or acronym) and associated educational “reforms.” Under his co-leadership, CT:SOS won a significant victory in the Connecticut legislature, defeating a broad-based coalition of government, educational unions and certain major corporations (in particular, Union Carbide) in their attempt to replace local and locally-elected school boards with a single state-appointed board. The CT:SOS program of alternate, traditionalist reforms co-authored by Satinover, “Academic-Based Education”, was ignored in Connecticut but formally adopted at the time by the Board of Education of San Diego, California, then the nation’s sixth largest public school system.
Books
- 1996, Feathers of the Skylark: Compulsion, Sin and Our Need for a Messiah
- 1996, The Empty Self: C. G. Jung & the Gnostic Transformation of Modern Identity ISBN 978-0965294515
- 1996, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth
- 1997, Cracking the Bible Code, ISBN 0-688-15463-8
- 1997, The Truth Behind the Bible Code
- 1998, Cracking the Bible Code
- 2002, The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man ISBN Brazilian PT translation 978-85-7657-040-0