John Hochman

John Ira Hochman (born 1946) is an American forensic psychiatrist and surgeon who has written about the psychology of "cults", abuse and false memory syndrome. Hochman has been practicing medicine since 1970. Hochman is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA. He has testified in over 100 depositions, and 90 trials and arbitration since 1980. Hochman analyzed Mark Fuhrman, one of the detectives involved in the O. J. Simpson murder case. He was hired by the Los Angeles Police Department to interview Fuhrman in 1981, and the defense later filed his report in the Simpson case. Hochman had concluded that Fuhrman may have been trying to exaggerate his problems in order to qualify for a disability...