Mark Outland

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Dr. Mark Outland is a nationally known writer and psychiatrist, best known for his recent book series on political extremism entitled "Liberalism is a Mental Illness" and "Curing the Progressive Mind". Dr. Outland, a graduate of Harvard Law School and USC Medical School, has also written extensively on Islamic culture and practices, and his book "Behind the Islamic Curtain: Essays on Cultural Crosscurrents" is required reading in many Middle-Eastern Studies departments around the world, and has been cited as a source material for speeches by President George W. Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld. He currently serves as Deputy Director of Psychiatric Studies at the Department of Defense.

During the 1990's, Dr. Outland served as director of the Islamic Studies Foundation, a conservative think-tank at the University of California, San Diego. His treatise on the homo-erotic manifestations of Islamic extremism created a controversy upon publication. During this time, Dr. Outland also served on President Bill Clinton's Middle Eastern Advisory Committee, and later as a cultural advisor to the president at the State Department. He left that position in protest following the American pullout from Somalia.

Dr. Outland graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1974, later graduating from the law school in two years, and completed medical training at the University of Southern California in 1981. He completed his residency as the James Swafford Fellow at Johns Hopkins University teaching hospital, where he specialized in treating women with infant separation anxiety. His 1984 treatise entitled "Curing Post-Birth Traumatic Shock Syndrome" was published by the British medical journal The Lancet, and reprinted a year later by the American Academy of Birth Studies.

In 2002, Dr. Outland was awarded the Outstanding Psychiatrist Award from the American Association of Practicing Psychiatrist, citing his work in counseling Muslims wishing to leave the religion. In 2003, Dr. Outland accepted a position with the Department of Defense.

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