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.
Peter D. Kramer | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | October 22, 1948
Alma mater | Harvard University, University College London |
Occupation | Psychiatrist |
Employer | Brown Medical School |
Early life
editPeter 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] He was a Marshall Scholar in literature at University College London in 1970-72.
Bibliography
editBooks
edit- Death of the Great Man (2023)
- 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? (1997)
- Listening to Prozac (1993)
- Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age (1989)
Book introductions
edit- 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 L. B, Fierman
Book chapters
edit- Nonsense! in A Blauner (ed), The Peanuts Papers (2019)
Articles
edit- "Will AI soon diagnose politicians’ mental health conditions from afar?" STAT, (2023)
- "Why Are We So Eager to Hear “Placebo” Speak?" LLos Angeles Review of Books, (2016)
- "Why Doctors Need Stories", The New York Times (2014)
- "In Defense of Antidepressants", The New York Times (2011)
- "The Valorization of Sadness" (from The Hastings Center Report) (2000)
Short fiction
edit- "After Alice Left" TriQuarterly, #135/136 (2010)
- "The Name of the Helper", Prick of the Spindle (2010)
- "Permutations", Summerset Review (2011)
References
edit- ^ Kaplan, Arline (December 1, 2005). "Through the Times With Peter Kramer, M.D." Psychiatric Times. 23 (14).
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.