Before being elected president, Bersoff served as APA general counsel and held several leadership positions within the organization.
Bersoff has written four editions of a popular book on ethics and psychology.
Donald Bersoff earned BS, MA and Ph.D degrees from New York University, completing the PhD in 1965.
[2] Bersoff was elected president of the APA in 2013, and he is the first lawyer practitioner to hold the office.
[4] Bersoff is a past president of the American Psychology-Law Society, a division of the APA, and was also chair of the Law and Mental Disability Section of the Association of American Law Schools.