Peter D. Kramer

Peter D. Kramer
Born (1948-10-22) October 22, 1948 (age 76)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University, University College London
OccupationPsychiatrist
EmployerBrown 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] He was a Marshall Scholar in literature at University College London in 1970-72.

Bibliography

Books

  • 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

Book chapters

  • Nonsense! in A Blauner (ed), The Peanuts Papers (2019)

Articles

Short fiction

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Peter D. Kramer Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior". Brown University. Retrieved February 23, 2017.