Throughout his career, Dr. Brucato has taught thousands of mental health clinicians, teachers, physicians, and other professionals at talks, conferences, and training events. He has overseen the work of approximately 40 supervisees, including several while serving as the Director of Training for the psychology externship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s Center of Prevention and Evaluation (COPE), where he also held the position of Assistant Director from 2013-2021 and served as an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Brucato presently serves as a Visiting Scholar at Boston College in Newton, Massachusetts, where, in addition to research work, he participates in teaching and Ph.D. candidate supervision. Additionally, he conducts forensic evaluations in various settings, serves on the Forensic Psychology Expert Panel for the Cold Case Foundation, assisting law enforcement and families with unsolved crimes; and performs risk assessments and medical leave evaluations for all of the colleges in New York City’s CUNY system.
What post-doctoral fellows does Dr. Brucato work with?
Dr. Brucato is offering a post-doctoral position for a Ph.D. or Psy.D. in Psychology, with an emphasis on psychodiagnostic assessment and also involving psychotherapy. The post-doctoral candidate will gain experience with a wide array of assessment techniques and measures to address diverse psychological and neurocognitive referral questions; clinical interviewing; comprehensive report-writing; risk assessment for suicidality, self-injuriousness, violence, attenuated versus syndromal psychotic illness, and child/elder abuse; and integrative treatments.
Psychotherapy cases, and individual and group supervision will be based at Clarity’s Manhattan, New York, office. Dr. Brucato’s approach to supervision is collegial and conversational, while also incorporating a structured curriculum, whereby the post-doctoral candidate and I will review specific assessment methods, report-writing and psychotherapeutic concepts, sometimes reviewing pertinent academic literature.
Publications & Media Appearances
Dr. Brucato has written nearly 100 articles for peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and given over 400 professional presentations on the symptoms, prediction and impacts of psychosis and violence. He has co-written two books and is presently writing two more. His first book, The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime (2019), co-authored with Dr. Michael H. Stone, is presently used as a textbook in several American forensic training programs and, in 2020, was ranked #91 in ShortForm’s list of “The Best Forensic Psychology Books of All-Time.” That same year, he co-authored the book Understanding and Caring for People with Schizophrenia: Fifteen Clinical Cases with Drs. Ragy R. Girgis and former American Psychiatric Association President Jeffrey A. Lieberman.
Dr. Brucato is active in the media, appearing on or consulting for several documentary series for A&E, Reelz, Epix, Hulu, and Peacock/Oxygen True Crime. His work has been featured or referenced by numerous news outlets, including Newsweek, Psychology Today, USA Today, The New York Times, NewsNation, Court TV, Nancy Grace’s Crime Stories, WebMD, Volksrant, Science Magazine, WINK News, and The Cut, as well as on various podcasts. He is regularly featured on the YouTube program The Interview Room, hosted by Chris McDonough. In 2021, Dr. Brucato was invited to write for Psychology Today, authoring the blog Probing the Unfathomable: Understanding Modern Violent Crime.