Dr. John Hochman is a practicing psychiatrist in Encino, California, specializing in the evaluation and treatment of victims of cultic entities and/or undue influence; the theoretical study of cult phenomena, psychiatry and the law, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders. He is a consultant and expert witness in courtroom cases involving abuse allegations, coercive persuasion and psychotherapy cult involvement. Dr. Hochman is also Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and serves on the editorial and advisory boards of the Cultic Studies Journal, the American Family Foundation, and the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. In 1990 he won the John C. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies from the American Family Foundation.