Norman Kreitman (5 July 1927 – 15 December 2012)[1][2] was a psychiatric researcher and academic, based in Edinburgh, primarily known for coining the term parasuicide. He was also a published poet of some distinction, and wrote perceptively on the philosophy of art - in particular, on the psychology of metaphor.[3]
Kreitman was born in London.[4] He received his medical training at Westminster Hospital, graduating in 1949, and worked at a tuberculosis hospital on the Isle of Wight before going into psychiatry. After training at the Maudsley hospital, he moved to Edinburgh in 1966.[citation needed]
In Edinburgh, he was Director of the Medical Research Council Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry.[citation needed]
Works
editPsychiatry
edit- Methods of Psychiatric Research. Edited by Peter Sainsbury and Norman Kreitman. OUP. (1963)
- Current Research on Suicide and Parasuicide. (with S D Platt). Wiley. (1988)
Poetry
edit- Touching Rock (1987)
- Against Leviathan (1989)
- Casanova's 72nd Birthday (2003)
- Dancing in the Dark: New and Selected Poems (2010)[5]
References
edit- ^ Scottish Poetry Library: Norman Kreitman
- ^ http://announce.jpress.co.uk/22276378?s_source=jpsc_scot [dead link]
- ^ "Professor Norman Kreitman, FRCPE Edin". Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ^ Tait, David (1995), "Norman Kreitman : In conversation with David Tait" (PDF), Psychiatric Bulletin, 19: 296–301, doi:10.1192/pb.19.5.296
- ^ "Dancing in the Dark | Shop | Scottish Poetry Library". Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- Kreitman, N. (1977), Parasuicide, Chichester: Wiley.