and food, observing at the time how "if you’re worried about food, you don’t want to die." The siege ultimately ended without any further deaths when the gunmen surrendered. Schlossberg authored his memoir Psychologist With A Gun (1974) with Lucy Freeman. He was featured in the documentary film Hold Your Fire covering the 1973 siege. The documentary premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, won the Metropolis Award at Doc NYC, and was selected by Dr. Carla Hayden as the Grand Prize Winner of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film in October 2020. Post-NYPD After leaving the NYPD in 1978, Schlossberg served as chief psychologist for the Rye Police Department from 1988 to 1994, as well as for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1990 to 1999. He also went into academia, teaching at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice from 1974 to 1982. He subsequently taught as an associate professor at St. John's University for 27 years. During his later years, he resided in Forest Hills, Queens, where he also kept a private practice and hung a portrait of Sigmund Freud in his office. Personal life Schlossberg's first marriage to Cynthia Marks ended in divorce. Together, they had four children: Mark, Alexander, James, and Steven. His second marriage was to Antoinette Collarini Schlossberg, who also taught at St. John's University. They had one child, Anna Elizabeth. Schlossberg died on May 21, 2021, at a hospital in Brooklyn. He was 85 when he suffered a fatal cardiopulmonary arrest. Articles and citations "Patrolman Puts Psychology Degree to Use", The New York Times, February 20, 1973 "Police Trying to Out-Psych the Son of Sam Killer", The New York Times, April 26, 1977. "Review of Psychologist with a Gun by Lucy Freeman, Kirkus Reviews. Crisis' or 'Hostage' Negotiation? The Distinction Between Two Important Terms", FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, May 3, 2014. "Finding the First Mind Hunter", Psychology Today, May 11, 2020. References 1936 births 2021 deaths American Jews American psychoanalysts Brooklyn College alumni Freudians Hostage negotiators Long Island University alumni New York City Police Department officers People from Brooklyn People from Manhattan St. John's University (New York City) faculty Yeshiva University alumni