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After leaving Mississippi he became an assistant professor at Tufts University Medical School. Here he was the director of a psychiatry program in a low-income housing development.

Poussaint completed his postgraduate training at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Neuropsychiatric Institute, where he served as the chief resident in psychology from 1964 to 1965.

Dr. Poussaint began teaching and researching at Harvard Medical School in 1969.

Between 1965 and 1967 Poussaint was the southern field director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in Jackson, Mississippi.

Dr. Poussaint's research interests include studies on the nature of grief, self-esteem, parenting, violence and the social adaptation of children of interracial marriage.

After graduating from Stuyvesant High School he received a Bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1956 and an M.D. from Cornell University in 1960.