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Brian Johnson, M.D.

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Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York Upstate Medical University 713 Harrison Street Syracuse, NY 13210 Phone: (315) 469-3130 Email: johnsonb@upstate.edu

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Anesthesia at SUNY Upstate and Co-Chair of the annual workshop of the American Psychoanalytic Association, “The Addicted Patient in Psychoanalysis and PDr. Johnson received his BS in engineering biology from Columbia University and his MD from New York Medical College. He completed his psychiatry residency at Cambridge Hospital, and his analytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for 30 years until moving to SUNY Upstate in 2008. While training residents in psychiatry at Harvard, Dr. Johnson treated about 15,000 patients undergoing detoxification. Dr. Johnson is a long-term member of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Johnson’s publications focus on neuropsychoanalytic treatment of patients with addiction, prescription drug abuse and treatment of chronic pain. With his creative and engaging eBook, Widespread Zombification in the 21st Century and the Wars of the Zombie Masters, Dr. Johnson challenges young people to resist “zombification by the zombie masters”—or, becoming addicted (“zombified”) by the individuals and systems (“zombie masters”) that sell and deal drugs and benefit from the misfortune of others.