Education Steven Hassan earned his doctorate at Fielding University doing quantitative research on the factors of control that characterize undue influence; he is an Institute for Social Innovation Fellow at Fielding Graduate University. He published his first peer-reviewed journal article in Ethics, Medicine and Public Health (2019) 8,97-107 in Elsevier Masson France, and available at sciencedirect.com. His faculty supervisor was Dr. Judy Stevens-Long. Steven Hassan is an active member of The Program in Psychiatry and the Law (PIPATL), a think tank at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

Teaching Dr. Hassan is an experienced educator, having served 1999-2019 as a presenter in the course Spirituality, Religion and Psychiatry in the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Hassan had taught several classes for 4th year psychiatry residents. He was invited, as a member of the forensic think tank, the Program in Psychiatry and the Law, to be an instructor for the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop in 2016-2019. He was a repeat presenter of Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Grand Rounds. His 2017  presentation Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Undue Influence: An Introduction to Destructive Cults, Mind Control, Brainwashing and Deprogramming was videotaped. He has also presented Boston University School of Medicine Psychiatry Grand Rounds (2016) and more recently Cleveland Clinic Akron Psychiatry Grand Rounds twice (2023). He has also served in other educational and training capacities for higher education, professional, law enforcement, governmental, non-governmental and advocacy group audiences.

Media – Dr. Hassan is regularly featured in the national news media and has 4 Ted Ex talks on issues ranging from undue influence to artificial intelligence. He is available for speaking engagements.