He was also the co-founder, along with Daniel Callahan, of The Hastings Center, an independent research institute focused on bioethics.
In addition to articles in technical and professional journals, he has contributed articles to the Atlantic Monthly, Christianity and Crisis, Commonweal, Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times and New York Times Sunday Magazine, Psychology Today, Saturday Review, Science, Washington Post, The Wilson Quarterly, and others.
[citation needed] Among other awards and honors, he has received the George E. Daniels Medal for contributions to psychoanalytic medicine, the Van Gieson Award for outstanding contributions to the mental health sciences, was named Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Lecturer at Smith College, Bloomfield Lecturer at Case Western Reserve Medical School, Sandor Rado Lecturer at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, a Chubb Fellow at Yale, Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School, and received the prestigious Henry Beecher Award for Life-Achievement in Bioethics.
He has served on the boards of directors of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Helsinki Watch, Medical/ Scientific Board of the National Aphasia Association, and was the first chairman of the Human Rights Task Force of the American Psychiatric Association and was a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Institute of Medicine.
The 1981 KCTS/TV series, "Hard Choices," for which he was the narrator, received an Alfred I DuPont/Columbia Broadcast Award for excellence in TV journalism.