Education
Fellowship, Forensic Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2001
M.A., History of Medicine and Science, Yale University, 1996
Psychiatry Residency, Yale University, 1990
M.D., Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, CA, 1986
B.A., French, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA, 1982
About Charles
Dr. Morgan is a Professor in the Department of National Security at the University of New Havens Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences. Dr. Morgan is a Forensic Psychiatrist, former intelligence officer, and a Neuroscientist. The focus of his teaching is intelligence analysis, research methods in national security, issues in deception and operational psychology (indirect assessments; Assessment & Selection for SOF units). Dr. Morgan is the Director of the National Security Research Laboratory at UNH and has grants from the US Government. His current research is focused on deception detection, and zero acquaintance/indirect assessments of human personalities.
Prior to coming to the University of New Haven, Dr. Morgan was a full time faculty member at Yale University School of Medicine (Department of Psychiatry) for over 20 years and served as Medical Director at the clinical Neuroscience Division of the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at the, Yale/Veterans Administration in Connecticut. Dr. Morgan continues to be a member of the clinical faculty at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Morgan also served as an Intelligence officer at the CIA (2003-2010).
Recent Publications
Morgan III, CA, Dule, J, Rabinowitz, Y: Impact of Interrogation Stress on Compliance and Suggestibility in US Military Special Operations Personnel. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, July 2020. Ethics Medicine and Public Health 14:100499. DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2020.100499.
CAMorgan III B Russell, J McNeil, J Maxwell, PJ Snyder, SM Southwick, RH Pietrzak: Baseline Burnout Symptoms Predict Visuospatial Executive Function During Survival School Training In Special Operations Military Personnel. Journal Int. Neuropsychological Society (2011) 17: 1-8.
Television
Investigation Discovery: Signs of a Psychopath (Seasons 1-4)
Publications of interest
Ridgeway, W, Morgan III CA, Picano J, Roland R, Rabinowitz Y: Sentence Completion Test Defensiveness and Success in US Military Assessment and Selection. Journal of Research in Personality 104 (2023); 104384. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656623000466
Vrij A, Meissner CA, Fisher R, Kassin SM, Morgan III CA, Kleinman SM: Psychological Perspectives on Interrogation. Psychological Science, 12(6):927-955 · September 2017
Other
Dr. Morgan worked in academic. clinical and research environments for 25 years at Yale University. In addition to his work at Yale, Dr. Morgan has supervised students in the masters program at the Joint Military Intelligence College, Bolling AFB, Washington, DC. Dr. Morgan served as a medical intelligence officer (2003-2010) with the Central Intelligence Agency and was a government liaison with the US Intelligence Science Board; In 2011 Dr. Morgan deployed to Afghanistan with the US Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group. From 2011-2013, Dr. Morgan served as an operations specialist for the Special Technologies Laboratory of the Department of Energy. At present, Dr. Morgan continues to perform private consulting regarding selection and assessment for the Asymmetric Warfare Group and the US Navy. He is currently serving on the National Academy of Science Committee on Eyewitness Identification Reform and has joined the faculty of the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, University of New Haven. Dr. Morgan is the first physician to be hired by the University where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of National Security, with an emphasis on intelligence analysis, national security psychology and psychops.
Courses Taught
NSPS 6645 National Security: Issues in Deception
NSPS 6670 Special Topic: Intelligence Analysis
NSEC 4400 Intelligence Analysis
NSEC 1100 Introduction to National Security