Daniel J. Friedman
Emeritus Professor of Psychology

B.A., Antioch College.
M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University.
Clinical Psychology Internship, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle.

About Dan

Dan worked as an evaluation specialist at Boston State Hospital and did his clinical psychology internship in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center for Biomedical Ethics and was awarded an NEH Summer Fellowship to study psychiatric ethics at the University of Virginia. He served several terms as a member of the Ohio Board of the American Civil Liberties Union and visited psychiatric facilities in Cuba.

Scholarly Interests

His scholarly interests include ethical issues in psychological treatment and research, single-case experimental designs, and the presentation of behavioral science expertise in the mass media. Dan spent a year-long sabbatical studying documentary film production in the Department of Communications at the University of Michigan. His historical documentary Back Alley Detroit: Abortion Before Roe v. Wade (made in collaboration with Sharon Grimberg) won a number of awards, including a Silver Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival, and is distributed by Filmakers Library. His most recent documentary, Miss India Georgia (also done in collaboration with Sharon Grimberg), follows four young women in the hectic weeks leading up to Atlanta's annual South Asian beauty pageant, exploring the complexity of their feelings about growing up in the American South as children of immigrant parents. Miss India Georgia was broadcast in the PBS national primetime schedule and received awards from the Society for Visual Anthropology, the American Anthropological Association, the New England Film Festival, and the Athens International Film and Video Festival.

Dan’s media work has been supported by an NEA/AFI Great Lakes Regional Fellowship and by two Ohio Arts Council grants. In addition to work in documentary film, he has done radio features as a freelance reporter for WYSO-FM, Yellow Springs, and WOSU-AM, Columbus.

After he retired from Antioch in 2001, Dan moved to Portland, Oregon, where he continues to work on documentary film and radio journalism projects. In addition, he serves on the Board of Portland’s Downtown Neighborhood Association and does volunteer work teaching low-income adults, seniors, and the homeless how to use computers and the internet.

Contact Information

Daniel Friedman, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
1405 SW Park Avenue #41, Portland, Oregon, 97201
danielfriedman@earthlink.net
503-228-8615