Jerrold M. Post, M.D., is considered the founding father of political personality profiling, having served a 21-year career with the CIA as the founding director of the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior. Following his CIA career, he became Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College and received his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine. He received postgraduate training in psychiatry from Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Post is the author of fourteen books in the field of political psychology, most recently Narcissism and Politics: Dreams of Glory from Cambridge University Press. Over the course of his career, Dr. Post has been interviewed on CNN, ABC, NBC, FoxNews, MSNBC, CNBC, and has made frequent appearances on CBS’s Hardball with Chris Matthews and CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, as well as ABC’s Nightline, CBS’s Face the Nation, and ABC’s Good Morning America.
Stephanie Doucette is the Director of Research at Political Psychology Associates, Ltd. She has conducted research on the psychology of political leaders and on the changing psychological face of terrorism in collaboration with Dr. Post, and has co-authored scholarly work with Dr. Post on the subject published by the Oxford University Press and elsewhere. Ms. Doucette earned her B.A. in international affairs, with a minor in psychology, at The George Washington University, and earned her M.A. in security studies from Georgetown University, with a concentration in terrorism and sub-state violence. Her research has focused on the psychology of female and adolescent terrorists.