Dr. Lion received his undergraduate education at Harvard University, and his M.D. degree from the Albany Medical College of Union University in New York, following which he interned on the George Washington University Division of D. C. General Hospital in Washington. He thereafter completed his residency training in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. After serving in the U. S. Navy, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Dr. Lion has extensive experience treating the mood disorders of anxiety and depression and has an active psychotherapy practice involving patients with career and relationship issues. He is also a recognized expert on aggression. He has consulted with the Secret Service in studying threats to government officials, with the National Institute of Mental Health in identifying the dangerous mentally ill, and with major institutions, such as the U. S. Postal Service, in assessing employee risk. During the Tylenol poisonings in the 1980’s, Dr. Lion was retained by the Grocery Manufacturers of America and British Food and Drink Council to establish the profile of a food tamperer. Dr. Lion has worked with both federal and state law enforcement agencies on matters pertaining to criminal responsibility, and regularly testifies for both the prosecution and defense in forensic cases involving violence. He is frequently sought to review instances of homicide, suicide, and sexual criminality, including Internet sex crimes. Dr. Lion is on the consulting staff of Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltimore, Maryland, where he regularly evaluates patients deemed to be potentially dangerous. He advises major U. S. corporations in threat management.
Dr. Lion has written over 100 articles and book chapters, and authored and edited seven textbooks, including volumes on personality disorders and psychopharmacology, translated respectively into Spanish and Japanese. He has lectured internationally, and for ten years helped teach a course on the expert witness at the University of Maryland Law School. Dr. Lion is Board-Certified in Psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, and in several professional and public databases including Who’s Who and Best Doctors in America.
Dr. Lion is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA.
Dr. Lion maintains an active psychotherapeutic practice and supervises residents. More recent interests include the problems of pathologic bonding and attachment. He has just published a novel entitled PSYCHIATRIST, DISTURBED, which deals with two clinicians whose troubled relationships lead to violence.
DIRECTIONS TO OFFICE
My office is in a residential/retail/hotel complex called Cross Keys. It is located in the middle of Falls Road, between Northern Parkway and Cold Spring Lane.
Enter Cross Keys past a gatehouse.
Turn LEFT after you pass through the gatehouse. There are signs for shops and the hotel.
Turn immediately RIGHT as soon as you come to the stop sign. Head into the parking lots. Ahead you will see a sign that says VILLAGE SHOPS. As you enter the archway for the shops—on the right hand wall—you will see a sign that says VILLAGE SQUARE #1.
Go through the door and up the stairs. At the landing is my office.
Call my cell if you get confused:
(410) 456-0710
John R. Lion, M.D.
1 Village Square, Suite 140
Village of Cross Keys
Baltimore, Maryland 21210
Phone: (410) 433-6333
Cell: (410) 456-0710
Fax: (410) 433-4900
Email: newtlion@aol.com