Richard Mollica
Richard Francis Mollica | |
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Mollica in 2024 | |
| Born | December 20, 1946 Bronx, New York, US |
| Occupation | Professor, researcher, writer, educator |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Reed College University of New Mexico School of Medicine Yale School of Medicine Yale Divinity School |
| Spouse | Karen Carlson |
| Children | 2 |
Richard F. Mollica (born December 20, 1946) is an American academic and writer. He is the Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research focuses on Psychological trauma and recovery. Mollica has published over 160 scientific manuscripts, and has published Healing Invisible Wounds (2006) and Manifesto IV Healing a Violent World (2018). In 2022, he received the lifetime award from Harvard Medical School, and in 2023, the Lux et Veritas Award from Yale Divinity School
Mollica is considered a pioneer and founder of a new field of medicine Refugee Mental Health. He started one of America's first refugee clinics in Boston in December 1981.
The scientific and clinical work of Mollica and the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma has served as a global model worldwide and has been replicated in many countries including the US, Australia, Canada, Italy, Bosnia Herzegovina, Haiti, and Ukraine.