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
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 Neuroscientist. The focus of his teaching is, national security (domestic and international intelligence analysis), issues in deception and psychological operations. Dr. Morgan is the Director of the National Security Research Laboratory at UNH and has grants from the US Government. His research is focused on enhancing the detection of deception and on improving the indirect assessments of human personalities.
See MorePrior 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 also served as an Intelligence officer at the CIA (2003-2010).
Since 2007, Dr. Morgan has worked in operational psychology with the US Special Operations Command, the Marine Corps Special Operations Command, and with the Asymmetric Warfare Group. Dr. Morgan has developed and published scientific papers on new interviewing techniques designed to enhance the accuracy of credibility assessments that are used by professionals in the field of national security. Dr. Morgan was deployed to Afghanistan and served as a Psychological Operational Advisor with the US Army Asymmetric Warfare Group.
While at the CIA, Dr. Morgan served as an academic supervisor to the Masters program of the Joint Military Intelligence College, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC. (2004-2010). After his time at CIA, Dr. Morgan served an operations specialist for the Special Technologies Laboratory, Counterintelligence Activities Division of the Department of Energy.
Dr. Morgan continues to provide subject matter expert consultation to as Forensic Psychistrist, and as a Subject Matter Expert to the U.S. Special Operations Command. He served as a member of the National Academy of Science Committee for Eyewitness Identification Reform (2014). Dr. Morgan is the author of over 100 peer reviewed publications for topics such as Post traumatic Stress, Eyewitness Memory, Interrogation Stress, Detecting Deception and Intelligence.
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.
Pietrzak RH, Johnson DC, Goldstein MB, Malley JC, Rivers AJ, Morgan CA, Southwick SM: Psychosocial buffers of traumatic stress, depressive symptoms and psychosocial difficulties in veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom: The role of resilience, unit support and postdeployment social support.
Journal of Affective Disorders in press. Morgan, CA, Rasmusson A, Pietrzak RH, Coric V, Southwick, SM: Relationships among Plasma Dehydroepiandrosterone and Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate, Cortisol, Symptoms of Dissociation and Objective Performance in Humans Exposed to Underwater Navigation Stress. Biological Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4 (August 15, 2009).
Aikins, DE, Martin DJ, Morgan III CA: Decreased Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Individuals with Deceptive Intent. Psychophysiology 47 (2010); 633-636.
McNeil, J. A., & Morgan, C. A. (2010). Cognition and decision making in extreme environments. In C. H. Kennedy & J. L. Moore (Eds.). Military Neuropsychology (pp. 361-382). New York, NY: Springer.
See MoreLoftus EF & Morgan III CA: Memory Distortions and the Intelligence Community. Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development. No. 5 (May) 2010. 1-16.
Morgan III CA, Colwell K, Hazlett GA: Efficacy of Forensic Statement Analysis in Distinguishing Truthful from Deceptive Eyewitness Accounts of Highly Stressful Events. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 56 (5); 2011. pp 1237-1234.
Morgan III CA & Hazlett, GA: Field Validation Exercise: Accuracy of Fixed Choice Testing compared to Polygraph Based Concealed Information Testing in detecting Sensitive Information in Special Operations Troops. Scientific Technical Report, DIA, 2011.
Morgan III CA, Coric V, Hilts D, Kallivrousis G, Clark W, Kine J, Hill SR, Schefferman R: Efficacy of Combining Interview Techniques in Detecting Deception Related to Bio-threat Issues. Peer Reviewed Scientific Technical Report, Defense Intelligence Agency HHM402-10-C-0088. 2012.
Morgan III CA, Southwick, SM, Steffian G, Hazlett GA, Loftus EF: Misinformation can influence memory for recently experienced, highly stressful events. International Journal of Law & Psychiatry, Jan-Feb; 36(1) 11-7; 2013.
Morgan III, CA, Rabinowitz, YG, Hilts D, Weller CE, Coric V.: Efficacy of Modified Cognitive Interviewing, Compared to Human Judgments in Detecting Deception Related to Bio-threat Activities. Journal of Strategic Security. 6, no. 3 (2013): 100-119.
Morgan III CA, Taylor, M: Spontaneous and Deliberate Dissociative States During Realistic Military Stress: Journal of Traumatic Stress Studies, 2013 Aug: 26(4):492-7.
Taylor MK, Larson GE, Hiller Lauby MD, Padilla GA, Wilson IE, Schimied EA, Highfill McRoy RM, Morgan CA 3rd. Stress. 2014 Jan; 17(1): 70-8.
Southwick SM & Morgan III CA: I Believe What I Remember, But it May not Be True.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Neurobiol Learn Mem, 2014 Jan 4 in press.
Taylor MK & Morgan III CA: Spontaneous and Deliberate Dissociative States in Military Personnel: Relationships to Objective Performance Under Stress. Military Medicine, in press.
Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification: Committee of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18891 (October 2014)
Morgan III, CA, Rabinowitz, Y, Palin B, Kennedy K: Who Should You Trust? Discriminating Between Genuine from Deceptive Eyewitness Accounts. Open Journal of Criminology, (2015) 8, 49-59.
Canetti D, Kimhi S, Hannoun R, Rocha GA, Galea S, Morgan CA (2016): How Personality affects Vulnerability among Israelis and Palestinians Following the 2009 Gaza Conflict. PLOS One. July 8, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156278
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.
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Charles 'Andy' Morgan, professor of national security, comments that high-security leaks at the Pentagon put lives at risk, saying the leakers rarely think of that consequence.
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Charles A. Morgan, professor of national security, talks about the murder case of Edward Hayden. His roommate, Sean Turkot, was charged, along with his friend Alex Smoot.
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Charles A. Morgan, professor of national security, talks about Putin’s state of mind, explaining that he can be ruthless and narcissistic, but that his decisions are calculated.
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Charles A. Morgan, professor of national security, talks about Vladimir Putin's mindset, explaining why he is not unstable, as some have claimed, and why his actions are calculated.
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A presentation by Charles A. Morgan, professor of national security, on using the internet and brain implants, and how thoughts can be transferred from one person to another, is discussed in this article.
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Charles Morgan, professor of national security, speaks about the processes of memory and how it can fall short.
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Charles A. Morgan, professor of national security, has one of his lectures on “Psycho-Neurobiology and War” discussed in this article.
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Charles A. Morgan, professor of national security and Kenneth Gray, senior lecturer of criminal justice, discuss the origins of Whistleblowers Day and the difference in leaking classified information.
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Charles A. Morgan, professor of national security, talks about cases of extreme workplace violence and why early intervention is important to evaluate a disgruntled employee.
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Charles A. Morgan, professor of national security, comments on being a physician and working for the CIA.
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Charles A. Morgan, professor of national security, talks about the functions of the brain when under a high stress situation.
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Charles Morgan, professor of national security, had his 2013 paper discussed on what happens when the brain is exposed to high states of anxiety.
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Charles Morgan, professor of national security, discusses the pandemic during a recent conference at the Foreign Press Association.
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Charles (Andy) Morgan, professor of national security, explains why nausea and vomiting occur in times of panic. The urges are related to body systems redirecting energy and resources to your muscle groups and brain, he says.
Charles (Andy) Morgan, associate professor of national security and a forensic psychiatrist, comments on U.S. army officials having “relaxed” standards in the past when it comes to enlisting individuals with a history of mental illness.
Charles (Andy) Morgan, associate professor of national security and a forensic psychiatrist, testified Wednesday in the case of Bowe Bergdahl. He said Bergdahl suffers from numerous mental illnesses, including schizotypal personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as social anxiety/phobia and cognitive deficits. Bergdahl deserted his post as a United States army soldier and was captured and tortured by the Taliban. He was returned to the U.S. as part of a prisoner swap.
Charles Morgan, a psychiatrist and associate professor of national security, discusses his extensive research on psychological traits that are important when it comes to the selection of U.S. military operations candidates.
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Charles Morgan, a forensic psychiatrist and associate professor of national security, testified in the trial of a former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist. The story was featured in a number of publications around the country.
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Charles A. Morgan, III, associate professor of national security and a psychiatrist, has been added to the list of expert witness in the case of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an alleged deserter.