[1] Sass has served on the faculty of Rutgers University since 1983 and has been a visiting professor at a wide range of institutions both in the United States and abroad.
[2] The revised edition of Madness and Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2018) won the BMA: British Medical Association's 2018 award for Best Book in Psychiatry.
He completed his clinical internship in psychiatry at Cornell University Medical Center-New York Hospital, Westchester Division, in 1982.
Sass is both a full member of the graduate faculty of psychology and an affiliate of the comparative literature program.
His interests include "the intersection of clinical psychology with philosophy, the arts, and literary studies.