Larry J. Siever
Larry Joseph Siever was an American psychiatrist who was a leading figure in the study of personality disorders.
Early life
Larry Siever was born in 1947 in Urbana, Illinois. His father, Raymond Siever was a geologist, and his mother Doris Fisher was a schoolteacher. As a child he moved to Belmont, Massachusetts. In 1965 he was named a Presidential Scholar by the Department of Education for his academic success at Belmont [High School (Massachusetts)|Belmont High School.]Career
Siever worked at the Mount [Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)|Mount Sinai Hospital] and James J. Peters VA Medical Center. Prior to Mount Sinai and the VA, Siever worked for the National Institutes of Health and for McLean Hospital. Siever was the director Mood and Personality Disorders Program at Mount Sinai and the director of the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers at the James J Peters VA Medical Center. He was president of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Siever also founded the Veterans Integrated Service Networks. He died in 2021 due to illness.He graduated from Harvard College and Stanford [University School of Medicine].