Peter D. Kramer
Peter D. Kramer 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. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts degree in 1970 and an MD in 1976. He was a Marshall Scholar in literature at University College London in 1970-72. He did his residency at Yale University.Books
Death of the Great Man Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind Against Depression Spectacular Happiness: A Novel Should You Leave?- Listening to Prozac (1993)
- ''Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age''
Book introductions
The Art of Loving, by Erich FrommOn Becoming a Person, by Carl RogersBetter Than Well, by Carl ElliottThe Therapist is the Therapy by L. B, FiermanBook chapters
Nonsense! in A Blauner, The Peanuts PapersArticles
- "Will AI soon diagnose politicians’ mental health conditions from afar?" ,
- "Why Are We So Eager to Hear “Placebo” Speak?" L,
- "Why Doctors Need Stories", The [New York Times]
- "In Defense of Antidepressants", The New York Times
- "The Valorization of Sadness"
Short fiction
- "After Alice Left" TriQuarterly, #135/136
- , Prick of the Spindle
- , ''Summerset Review''