Peter D. Kramer
Peter D. Kramer | |
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Born | October 22, 1948 New York City, U.S. |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation | Psychiatrist |
Employer | Brown Medical School |
Peter D. Kramer (born October 22, 1948), is an American psychiatrist and faculty member of Brown Medical School specializing in the area of clinical depression.
Early life[]
Peter D. Kramer was born on October 22, 1948 in New York City to Jewish Holocaust survivors.[1] He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts degree in 1970 and an MD in 1976.[2]
Bibliography[]
Books[]
- Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants (2016)
- Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind (2006)
- Against Depression (2005)
- Spectacular Happiness : A Novel (2001)
- Should You Leave? : A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy—and the Nature of Advice (1997)
- Listening to Prozac (1993)
- Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age (1989)
Book introductions[]
- The Art of Loving, by Erich Fromm
- On Becoming a Person, by Carl Rogers
- Better Than Well, by Carl Elliott
- The Therapist is the Therapy by LB Fierman
Articles[]
- "Why Doctors Need Stories", New York Times (2014)
- "In Defense of Antidepressants", New York Times (2011)
- "The Valorization of Sadness" (from The Hastings Center Report) (2000)
Short Fiction[]
- "After Alice Left" TriQuarterly #135/136 (2010)
- "The Name of the Helper" Prick of the Spindle (2010)
- "Permutations" Summerset Review (2011)
References[]
- ^ http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/film-and-book-reviews/through-times-peter-kramer-md "All my relatives were German Jews. Those few who had managed to get out--they included my parents, my grandparents and one great-grandmother--had done so at the last possible moment. Most other family members were killed or died of medical neglect."
- ^ "Peter D. Kramer Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior". Brown University. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1948 births
- Living people
- American health and wellness writers
- American psychiatrists
- American science writers
- Brown University faculty
- Marshall Scholars
- Harvard Medical School alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- American Jews
- Alumni of University College London