Peter Alan Olsson

Peter Olsson MD

After attending Wheaton College, Olsson trained at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. After an internship in mixed medicine at the University of Vermont, Dr. Olsson took a psychiatry residency at Baylor (1968-1971). He served as a psychiatrist at Oakland Naval Hospital from 1971-73 running the substance abuse unit and working with the POWs returning from Vietnam prisons. Olsson later graduated from the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in Houston .and practiced psychiatry and psychotherapy while teaching psychotherapy in Houston for 25 years… and subsequently in New Hampshire since 1995. Olsson is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Med School and an adjunct professor of clinical psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

In his introduction to MALIGNANT PIED PIPERS OF OUR TIME, he describes what drew his personal and professional interest to destructive cult leaders. Olsson received the Judith Baskin Offer Prize for his paper, "Adolescent involvement in Cults and the Supernatural". Dr. Olsson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He retired from active clinical work to write full time in September 2011.

Published Books:

Olsson’s four published non -fiction books are:

MALIGNANT PIED PIPERS OF OUR TIME : From the Rev Jim Jones to Osama Bin Laden. Publish America, Baltimore, (2005);

The CULT OF OSAMA : Psychoanalyzing Bin Laden and His Magnetism For Muslim Youths. Praeger Security International of Greenwood Group, Westport , Connecticut. London (2007).

THE MAKING OF A HOMEGROWN TERRORIST. ABC-CLIO, Praeger, Santa Barbara (2014)

A first novel is called A BOYISH GOD. SBPRA, Houston, (2013).

A second novel is called HOUSTON’S HOMEGROWN TERROR. SBPRA, Houston, (2014).

And a poem collection,Poems Behind a Psychiatrists Couch: Red Lead Press, Pittsburgh.

For additional publications see Olsson website. www.drpeterolsson.com