Terry A. Kupers, M.D., M.S.P., Institute Professor, The Wright Institute

Terry A. Kupers, M.D., M.S.P. is Institute Professor at The Wright Institute, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and, besides practicing psychiatry at his office in Oakland, he consults to various public mental health centers and jail mental health services. He provides expert testimony as well as consultation and staff training regarding the psychological effects of prison conditions including isolated confinement in supermaximum security units, the quality of correctional mental health care, and the effects of sexual abuse in correctional settings. He has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, as well as to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Dr. Kupers has published extensively, including the books Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It (1999) and Public Therapy: The Practice of Psychotherapy in the Public Mental Health Clinic (1981). He is co-editor of Prison Masculinities (2002). He is a Contributing Editor of Correctional Mental Health Report. He received the Exemplary Psychiatrist award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in 2005, and the William Rossiter Award at the Annual Meeting of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California, March 18,2009.