Hartman John

John J. Hartman, Ph.D., FABP, is a clinical psychologist and board-certified psychoanalyst with more than fifty years of clinical experience. He earned his A.B. magna cum laude at Harvard College and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan, and trained at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Florida Psychoanalytic Center and a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis.

A former tenured associate professor at the University of Michigan, he has also taught at UCLA and the University of South Florida, where he is Affiliate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences. One of the early researchers of group process, he coedited Analysis of Groups (Jossey-Bass, 1974).

Since 2000, he has published psychoanalytic studies of Nazi propaganda, including analyses of Der ewige Jude (Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2000), Jud Süss (Mind and Human Interaction, 2001), and Triumph des Willens (Mind and Human Interaction, 2004). His work on hate propaganda was reported in Psychiatric News in 2007. These studies led to his book Perversion of Faith: The Psychology of Racist Propaganda in Film (Ethics International Press, 2024), reviewed in Clio's Psyche and the US Review of Books. He practices psychoanalysis online from Washington, DC.