Forensic psychologist martin reiser biography

The Beginnings of Police Psychology at The Los Angeles Police Department

Written by Joyce Bavlinka, M.Ed, LISAC
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes, 23 seconds

As we reorganize the Foundation’s book collection, I have come across several noteworthy books featuring those who have made strides in the fields of hypnosis and psychotherapy.

One such book was discovered in our historic book collection. It is the Handbook of Investigative Hypnosis (1980) by Martin Reiser, Ed.D. Reiser was director of Behavioral Science Service (BSS) for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and founder and director of the Law Enforcement Hypnosis Institute. He also served as president of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies.

Born in Philadelphia in 1927, Reiser received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Temple University. He was in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He later taught at Penn State University and worked at