CURRICULUM VITAE
PETER D. KRAMER
EDUCATION
Harvard College, A. B. with high honors in History and Literature, 1970
Marshall Scholar in literature, University College, London, 1970-72
Harvard Medical School, M. D. 1976
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Internship in Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, WI, 1976-77
Residency in Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 197780
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND BOARD CERTIFICATION
Licensed Physician: Rhode Island 1982 - present
Inactive Licenses: Connecticut, Maryland, District of Columbia
Diplomate, American Board of Adolescent Psychiatry, 1997-2007
Board Certification, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Psychiatry),
#22891, November 1981
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Providence, R. I.
Clinical Professor 1995 - present
Clinical Associate Professor 1991 - 1995
Clinical Assistant Professor 1985 - 1991
Assistant Professor 1982-85
George Washington University, Department of Psychiatry, Washington, D. C.
Instructor 1980
Assistant Clinical Professor 1981-82
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
Butler Hospital, Providence, R. I.
Associate Physician, Active Staff 1984 - present
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, R. I.
Associate Physician, Consulting Staff, 1991 – present
Assistant Physician, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, 1982-85
Director, Outpatient Psychiatry 1982-85
Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, R. I.
Associate Physician, Consulting Staff, 1986 – present
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Associate Physician, Active Staff, 1982-86
Director, Outpatient Psychiatry 1982-85
Roger Williams General Hospital, Providence, R. I.
Associate Physician, Consulting Staff 1988 – 2005
Associate Physician, Active Staff 1982-1988
George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D. C.
Clinical (Teaching) Staff 1980-82
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OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Host, “The Infinite Mind” [syndicated public radio program], 2005Member, Advisory Board, Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio, 2003Chair, Harriet Sheridan Lectureship in Medicine and the Humanities, Brown
University, 2003-2005
External Reviewer, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
External Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2003Guest Host, “The Infinite Mind” [syndicated public radio program], 2002-2005
External Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 2001
Fellow, Wayland Collegium, Brown University, 2000External reviewer, Yale University Press, 1998
Education Committee, Wheeler School, Providence, RI 1997-2000
Editorial Board, American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1996External reviewer, Harvard University Press, 1996
Schools Committee, Harvard Club of Rhode Island, 1994Editorial Board, The Psychodynamic Letter, 1990-1992
Senior Editor and Contributing Editor, The Psychiatric Times, 1985-1997
Editorial Consultant, American Psychiatric Association, 1987
Consultant, William T. Grant Foundation, New York, NY 1987
Consultant, Center for Health Economics Research, Chestnut Hill, MA 1983-86
Consultant, Division of Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine, Institute of
Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C. 1983-4
Special Assistant for Science to the Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and
Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), U. S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Rockville, MD, 1981-82; Acting Deputy Director and Acting
Director, Division of Science, ADAMHA, 1980-81
Chair, Interagency Oversight Committee for Institute of Medicine Study
of Health and Behavior
Member, Technology Coordinating Committee, National Center for
Health Care Technology
MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES
American Psychiatric Association 1979 – present
Distinguished Fellow (DFAPA) 2003-
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Fellow (FAPA) 1993 – 2002
Component Memberships:
Council on Quality Care 2005Council on Economic Affairs 1994-95 (Consultant)
Private Practice Committee 1988-94 (Chair, 1992-94)
Rhode Island Psychiatric Society 1982-present
President 1990-91
Councilor 1987-9
Committee Memberships:
Nominations 1988, 1992
Insurance 1985-86
Confidentiality Task Force (Chair) 1985-6
Program 1984-5, 1989-90
Law and Legislation 1982-88
Rhode Island Medical Society 1985 - present
Joint Committee on Legal/Medical Affairs (with Bar Association) 1989
Ad Hoc Committee on Minimum Health Care Benefits 1989
Peer Review Committee on Physician Qualifications 1990-1994
HONORS
Presidential Commendation, American Psychiatric Association, May 2006 [pending]
Visiting Fellow, Morse College, Yale University, New Haven, CT, November 2005
Honoree (Against Depression), “Ten Best Books of 2005,” National Alliance on
Mental Illness (NAMI)
Finalist (Against Depression), Books for a Better Life Awards, National Multiple
Sclerosis Society
Gracie Award, National level (host, “Infinite Mind” syndicated radio episode:
“Domestic Violence”), American Women in Radio and Television, Inc., June 2004
National Mental Health Association Media Award (host, “Infinite Mind” syndicated
radio episode: “In Any Language: Mental Health Care for Immigrants”),
National Mental Health Association, May 2004
Milton Rosenbaum Memorial Award (inaugural recipient), Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, New York, NY, October 16, 2003
Great Brain Books (Listening to Prozac), Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives,
Charles A. Dana Foundation, New York, NY, 1999
Harry Stack Sullivan Award, Enoch and Sheppard Pratt Hospitals, Towson, MD,
April 1999
Jacob E. Finesinger Visiting Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD,
April 1997
Literary Light, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 1993
BOOKS
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Kramer PD: Against Depression New York: Viking, May 2005; Spanish edition,
2006; Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, and Swedish editions [in
press]
Kramer PD: Spectacular Happiness New York: Scribner, 2001 [Scribner paperback,
2002]
Kramer PD: Should You Leave? New York: Scribner, 1997[Penguin paperback, 1999].
British, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions, 1998-2000
Kramer PD: Listening to Prozac New York: Viking, 1993 [Penguin paperback, 1994].
Fourteen foreign editions, 1994-6: Australian, British, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish,
Swedish; American second edition with afterword, Penguin, 1997
Kramer PD: Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological
Age New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1989 [Penguin paperback, 1994]
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Unequivocal Eye,” in J Peseroff (ed), Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane
Kenyon, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2005, 251-255 [reprint of April
1994 Psychiatric Times essay]
“Die Kierkegaard-Frage,” [The Kierkegaard Question] in S Neiman, M Kross
(eds), Zum Glück Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004, 105-117 (R Ansén, tr)
“Riches in the Doctor's Bag,” Short Story Criticism, vol. 70, Detroit: Gale,
2004, 9-10 [reprint of 1994 Washington Post Book review]
"Couples: When to Shut Up" in Burch M, ed., Interpersonal Communication:
Building Foundations for Succcess Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 2004 [reprint
of 2002 O article]
“The Valorization of Sadness: Alienation and the Melancholic
Temperament,” in C Elliott, T Chambers (eds), Prozac as a Way of Life,
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, 48-58 [reprint of
2000 Hastings Center Report monograph]
Foreword to C Elliott, Better Than Well, New York: W. W. Norton, 2003, ixxiii
"Coffee and Sympathy," in SB Breathnach, M Segell (eds), A Man's Journey to
Simple Abundance, New York: Scribner, 2000, 204-209
“Divorce and Our National Values” in Stubbs M, Barnet S (eds), The Little, Brown
Reader, 8th edn, New York: Longman, 2000, 226-228 [reprint of 1997 New York
Times op-ed]
Interview in PL Rudnytsky, Psychoanalytic Conversations, Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic
Press, 2000, 81-100
"The Future of Psychiatry" in BJ Sadock, V Sadock (eds), Kaplan and Sadock's
Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 7th edn, Baltimore, MD: Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, 2000, 3342-3344
"Freud: Current Projections," in MS Roth (ed), Freud: Conflict and Culture, New
York: Knopf, 1998, 196-206
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Foreword to LB Fierman, The Therapist is the Therapy Northvale, NJ: Jason
Aronson, 1997, xi-xiii
Interview in L Laster, Life After Medical School New York: W. W. Norton, 1996, 3342
"Prozac and Personality: The Case of Tess" [excerpt of Listening to Prozac], in JE
Nelson, A Nelson (eds), Sacred Sorrows: Embracing and Transforming
Depression, NY: Putnam, 1996, 79-82
Introduction to reissue of C Rogers, On Becoming a Person. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1995, ix-xv
Introduction to D Elfenbein (ed), Living with Prozac. San Francisco: Harper Collins,
1995, xi-xv
"Empathic Immersion," in Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and
Scalpel, H Spiro, MGM Curnen, et al., (eds), New Haven: Yale University Press,
1993, 174-189
PUBLICATIONS
Kramer PD: Real Impairments, Real Treatments [Commentary]. American
Journal of Bioethics 5 [3]: 62-63, 2005
Kramer PD, Hartstochtelijk Rouwen [Passionate Grief], Nexus (Tilburg,
Netherlands: Nexus Institute) 39: 137-145, 2004
Kramer PD: The Valorization of Sadness: Alienation and the Melancholic
Temperament. Hastings Center Report 30: 13-18, March-April 2000
Kramer PD, Coustan D, Krzminski J, et al: Hospitalism on the High Risk Maternity
Unit: A Pilot Study. General Hospital Psychiatry 8:33-9, 1986
Bodenheimer HC, Fulton JP, Kramer PD: Acceptance of Hepatitis B Vaccine Among
Hospital Workers American Journal of Public Health 76: 252-255, 1986
Fulton JP, Bodenheimer HC, Kramer PD: Acceptance of Hepatitis B Vaccine Among
Hospital Workers: A Follow up. American Journal of Public Health 76: 1339-41,
1986
Schurman RA, Kramer PD, Mitchell JB: The Hidden Mental Health Network:
Treatment of Mental Illness by Nonpsychiatric Physicians. Archives of General
Psychiatry 42: 89-94, 1985.
Schurman RA, Mitchell JB, Kramer PD: When Doctors Listen: Counseling Patterns
of Nonpsychiatrist Physicians. American Journal of Psychiatry 142: 934-38,
1985
Kramer PD: Integrated Psychiatric Treatment of a Dying Patient. General Hospital
Psychiatry 5: 291-99, 1983
Kramer PD: Insomnia: Importance of the Differential Diagnosis. Psychosomatics 23:
129-37, 1982
REVIEWS
Review of J Salter, Last Nights, and A Hempel, The Dog of the Marriage, American
Journal of Psychiatry 162: 2408-2409, 2005
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HM van Praag, ER de Kloet, J van Os, Stress, the Brain, and Depression,
Psychological Medicine [in press]
Kramer, PD: The Anatomy of Grief, Slate, October 17, 2005 [Review of J Didion, The
Year of Magical Thinking]
Kramer PD: The Vision Thing, Washington Post Book World June 19, 2005, 4
[review of P Theroux, Blinding Light]
Review of G Josipovici, Goldberg:Variations, American Journal of Psychiatry 161:
2337, 2004
Kramer PD: Goodbye, Darkness Slate, September 20, 2004 [Review of KR Jamison,
Exuberance]
Review of A Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, American Journal of Psychiatry, 160:
2252-2253, 2003
Review of R Ford, Multitude of Sins, American Journal of Psychiatry, 159: 21212122, 2002
Review of H Kaplan, Kinship Theory, American Journal of Psychiatry 158: 20972098, 2001
Review of R Alter, The David Story: A Translation With Commentary of 1 and 2
Samuel, American Journal of Psychiatry 157: 2064-5, 2000
Kramer PD: Biting Into Mimi Sheraton's Yeasty Obsession The Forward October 27,
2000, 13 [Review of Mimi Sheraton, The Bialy Eaters]
Review of TM Luhrmann, Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American
Psychiatry. Wilson Quarterly spring 2000, 138-9
Review of L Irvine, Codependent Forevermore: The Invention of Self in a Twelve Step
Group, TLS: The Times Literary Supplement No. 5056, February 25, 2000, 11
Kramer PD: Tin Ear, Salon, December 12, 1999 [Review of G Sheehy, Hillary’s
Choice] http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/12/20/kramer/index.html
Commentary on D Mamet, "Cryptogram" 1999-2000 Humanities Essay, Providence,
R.I.: Trinity Repertory Company, 1999
Review of G Jen, Who’s Irish, American Journal of Psychiatry 156: 2001-2, 1999
Kramer PD: I Contain Multitudes. New York Times Book Review November 21,
1999, 82 [review of J Acocella, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple
Personality Disorder]
Review of P Solotaroff, Group: Six People In Search of a Life, Mirabella, August
1999, 30
Review of D Blazer, Freud vs. God: How Psychiatry Lost its Soul and Christianity
Lost its Mind, American Journal of Psychiatry 156: 327, 1999
Brief review of D Tannen, The Argument Culture: Changing the Way We Argue and
Debate, TLS: The Times Literary Supplement January 8, 1999, 29
Review of G E Berrios, The History of Mental Symptoms: Descriptive
psychopathology since the nineteenth century, American Journal of Psychiatry
155: 1794-5, 1998
Commentary on "The Farmer's Wife," David Sutherland, dir., for PBS/WGBH/
Frontline, September 21, 1998, www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/
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farmerswife/essays/kramer.html
Disclosing Time. TLS: The Times Literary Supplement No. 4947, January 23, 1998,
10 [review of L Jamieson: Intimacy; Personal Relationships in Modern Societies]
Filling the Nest. New York Times Book Review October 19, 1997, 30 [review of J
Smolowe: An Empty Lap]
The Battle over Bettelheim. Weekly Standard April 7, 1997, 31-34 [review of R
Pollak: The Creation of Dr. B]
Siblings, Psyches, and a Parting of the Ways. Washington Post Book World March 2,
1997, 6 [review of J Neugeboren: Imagining Robert]
Review of G Stone, Little Girl Fly Away, Elle, April 1994
Review of E Canin, The Palace Thief, Washington Post, February 1994
Review of E Shorter, From the Mind Into the Body, Washington Post Book World,
January 1994
Review of A Lazare ed: Outpatient Psychiatry: Diagnosis and Treatment, 2nd edn.
Medical Encounter, Summer 1989, p. 7
Review of JL Rapoport The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing, Providence Sunday
Journal, January 29, 1989
Heartbreak House. 1987-88 Humanities Booklet #2 Providence, RI: Trinity
Repertory Company, 1987 [Commentary on J Guare, "House of Blue Leaves"]
Brief review of JC Norcross, ed Handbook of Eclectic Psychotherapy, Readings 2 (3):
22, September 1987
Review of S Shem (pseud) Fine. Psychiatric Times August 1985
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Kramer PD (interviewer): A Judge’s Self-Judgment: A Conversation with Sol
Wachtler, Newsday, Op-ed, February 12, 2006 [excerpt of “Four Lives,” Infinite
Mind]
Kramer PD: Depression: The Greatest Hidden Health Threat, Bottom Line Health
20 (2): 11-12, February 2006
Kramer PD (contributor): Your Witness, Senators: Expert Suggestions on CrossExamining Sam Alito, Slate, January 9, 2006
Kramer PD: Tools of the Trade, Amazon Short, August 2005
Kramer PD: The Neurotic Artist: Romanticizing Depression, The Chronicle Review
(of The Chronicle of Higher Education), May 6, 2005, B11-12 [adapted excerpt of
Against Depression]
Kramer PD: There’s Nothing Deep About Depression. New York Times Magazine,
April 17, 2005, 50-53 [adapted excerpt of Against Depression]
Kramer PD: Should Teenagers Take Drugs? Slate (Medical Examiner) June 4, 2004
Kramer PD: Tapping the Mood Gene, New York Times (Op-ed) July 26, 2003, A29
Kramer PD: Side Effects: Your Zoloft Might Prevent a Heart Attack, Week in
Review, New York Times, June 22, 2003, 3
Kramer PD: Depression’s Many Faces, Psychology Today March/April 2003,
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Kramer PD: Contribution to Forum: Unreliable Narrators in Literature, PEN
America 2: 4, 2002, 219
Kramer PD: When to Shut Up, O, December 2002, 63-64
Kramer PD: The Death of Innocents, Slate, April 16, 2002
Kramer PD: Besorgniserregende Intoleranz, Psychologie Heute November
2001, p. 26 [translation of Self essay, “Happiness Intelligence”]
Kramer PD: Crisis Counseling, Slate September 21, 2001
Kramer PD: Breakfast Table, Slate (exchange with Andrew Solomon) July 912, 2001
Kramer PD: Happiness Intelligence: Can sadness be good? Self July 2001, 88
Kramer PD: Ticket to 'Paradise': A Talk With Allegra Goodman, The Forward
May 11. 2001,
Kramer PD: Female Troubles, The New York Times Magazine October 1,
2000, 17-18
Kramer PD: Can Psychology Cure Racism? Slate (Dispatches and Dialogues)
January 12 and January 13, 2000 (exchange with Walter Reich)
Kramer PD: When Harry Wed Sally (Dialogue with Rob Reiner) Self October 1999,
198ff
Kramer PD: Ask not for whom the author writes—he writes for ‘you,’ Boston Globe
Sunday “Books” Section, January 10, 1999, D4
Kramer PD: Status is . . . For Psychiatrists, Really Getting Inside a Head, The New
York Times Magazine November 15, 1998, 92
Kramer PD: America's Mood on Clinton, New York Newsday (Op-ed) September 18,
1998, A53
Kramer PD: On Behavior: Why someone would risk it all, U. S. News and World
Report February 9, 1998 (v. 124, #7), 40
Kramer PD: Stage View: What Ivanov Needs is an Anti-Depressant, New York
Times, December 21, 1997, Section 2 (Arts & Leisure), 5
Kramer PD, Auriti S: Ma quando bisogna andarsene? [interview] Marie Claire
(Italy) December 1997, 118
Kramer PD: For Better or Worse, Elle September 1997, 306-312 [excerpt of Should
You Leave?]
Kramer PD: Should You Leave? Psychology Today September 1997, 38-45ff [excerpt
of Should You Leave?]
Kramer PD: Divorce and Our National Values, New York Times (Op-ed) August 29,
1997, A25
Kramer PD: Mental Illness on the Job, Slate (Dispatches and Dialogues) May 22,
June 5, and June 19, 1997 (exchange with Sally Satel)
Kramer PD: The Mentally Ill Deserve Job Protection, New York Times (Op-ed) May
6, 1997, A37
Kramer PD: Introduction to letters by F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Jonathan Slocum,
The New York Times Magazine December 1, 1996, 106-109
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Kramer PD: The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Times Book Review "Bookend,"
April 7, 1996, p. 27.
Kramer PD: Endstation Glück, German Vogue September 1995, pp. 346-7
Kramer PD: The Physician's Perspective: Prozac for PMS, and, What is PMS?
Health News July 18, 1995, 3
Kramer PD: About Men: A Rescue Without Cheers, The New York Times Magazine,
July 16, 1995, 15 [revision of July 1995 Psychiatric Times column]
Kramer PD: Private Faces in Public Places: The Ethics of Writing about Our Clients,
Family Therapy Networker 18: 15-17, 1994 [revised reprint of September
Washington Post "Outlook" article]
Akiskal HS, Jensvold MF, Kramer PD, et al., The Wise Use of Psychiatric Drugs,
Patient Care 28: 82-117, 1994 (revised and reprinted Spring 1996)
Kramer PD: An Ethical Guide to Writing about People in Therapy, Washington Post
"Outlook," September 25, 1994
Kramer PD: The Future of Psychotherapy in Psychiatry, Sheppard Pratt Psychiatric
Review 5, #1 (February 1992): 1-3.
Kramer PD: Is Everybody Happy? Boston Globe Good Health Magazine October 7,
1990, 15ff
Kramer PD: The Meaning of Empathy (letter), Amer J Psychiatry 146: 413, 1989
Kramer PD: Private Practice: Subspecialization, Psychiatric News, April 21, 1989,
26f.
Fulton JP, Bodenheimer HC, Kramer PD: Aceptacion de la vaccina contra la
hepatitis B entra trabajadores de hospital. Infectologia 7: 191-93, 1987
(translation of Amer J Public Health article)
Slaby AE, Kramer PD: Evaluating and Managing Self-Destructive Potential and
Behavior in a Hospital Setting. The Psychiatric Hospital16: 33-39, 1985
Slaby AE, Kramer PD: Evaluating Suicide Potential. Butler Review, 5: 2-10, 1985
Schurman RA, Mitchell JB, Kramer PD: Non-Psychiatrist Physicians: Mental
Health Care for the Aged. Research report, supported by contract
1RO1MH39605-01, National Institute of Mental Health, 1985
Barchas JD, et al: Research on Mental Illness and Addictive Disorders: Progress and
Prospects -- A Report on Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine, Institute of
Medicine. Amer J Psychiatry 142, July 1985, Supplement (Kramer PD,
Consultant to IOM Staff)
Bodenheimer HC, Fulton JP, Kramer PD: Acceptance of Hepatitis B Vaccine Among
Health Care Personnel (abstract). Gastroenterology 86: 1312, 1984
Bodenheimer HC, Fulton JP, Kramer PD: Acceptance of Hepatitis B Vaccine, in
Vyas G, Dienstag J, Hoofnagle J (eds), Viral Hepatitis and Liver Disease. New
York: Grune & Stratton, pp. 675-76, 1984.
Schurman RA, Kramer PD, Mitchell JB: The Hidden Mental Health Network:
Provision of Mental Health Services by Non-Psychiatrist Physicians. Research
report, supported by contract 232-81-0039 from Division of Health Professional
Analysis, 1983
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Hamburg DA, Elliott GR, Parron DL: Health and Behavior: Frontiers of
Research in the Biobehavioral Sciences. Washington, D. C.: National
Academy Press, 1982 (Kramer PD, project officer)
Parron DL, Solomon F, Jenkins CD, eds: Behavior, Health Risks, and Social
Disadvantages. Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press, 1982 (Kramer PD,
project officer)
Parron DL, Solomon F, Rodin J, eds: Health, Behavior, and Aging. Washington,
D. C.: National Academy Press, 1981 (Kramer PD, project officer)
Parron DL, Solomon F, Haggerty RJ, eds: Combining Psychosocial and Drug
Therapy: Hypertension, Depression, and Diabetes. Washington, D. C.:
National Academy Press, 1981 (Kramer PD, project officer)
Solomon F, Parron DL, Dews PB, eds: Biobehavioral Factors in Sudden Cardiac
Death. Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press, 1981 (Kramer PD, project
officer)
Parron DL, Eisenberg L, eds: Infants at Risk for Developmental Dysfunction.
Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press, 1981 (Kramer PD, project
officer)
"Women and the Abuse of Prescribed Psychotropic Medication", report by Kramer
PD, Klerman GL, Balter ME, Richardson L, signed and distributed by U. S.
Surgeon General's Office, April, 1981.
ARTICLES/COLUMNS
Monthly column "Peter Kramer: Practicing" in The Psychiatric Times:
"Identity Crisis" May 1997
"Characters," November 1996
"On Time," September 1996
"Practice Characteristics," June 1996
"Vive la différence," May 1996
"Required Attendance," April 1996
"Call Me Paranoid," March 1996
"What's News," January 1996
"What Goes without Saying," December 1995
"Uses of History," November 1995
"Shape of the Field," August 1995
"An American Fourth," July 1995
"Autopathography," June 1995
"Rogers's Due," May 1995
"The Big Picture," April 1995
"FWIW," March 1995
"Caps for Sale," January 1995
"Evolving Sensibilities," December 1994
"Psychiatry Unbound," November 1994
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"Private Faces in Public Places," October 1994 [revision of September Washington
Post "Outlook" article]
"End of the Road," September 1994
"Dead and Undead," August 1994
"Mein Goldener Siggi," July 1994
"Non-Trivial Pursuits," June 1994
"Depth Psychology," May 1994
"Unequivocal Eye," April 1994
"Another Busman's Holiday," March 1994
"Crisis Mentality," February 1994
"Loss of Function" [excerpt of Commonwealth Club talk], January 1994
"Signs of the Times," December 1993
"What the Doctor Ordered," November 1993
"The Music of What Happens," October 1993
"Degrees of Separation," September 1993
"Ego Trip," August 1993
"Value for Money," July 1993
"Counterreformation," June 1993
"The Anvil," May 1993
"Whose Patient is She?" April 1993
"Amazing Grace" March 1993
"No Joke" February 1993
"Love and Remembrance" [reprinted] January 1993
"Private Vices" December 1992
"Private Virtues" November 1992
"Character Issues" October 1992
"Non-Neutrality" September 1992
"Theatre of the Absurd" August 1992
"Selective Inattention" July 1992
"Guidance" June 1992
"Balance" May 1992
"Limping Along" April 1992
"Ineluctable Modalities" March 1992
"Neurotic Regression" February 1992
"Patience" January 1992
"Narrow Margin" December 1991
"Throw Psychotherapy From the Train" November 1991
"Said the Poet to the Analyst" October 1991
"No Answers" September 1991
"That's 40" August 1991
"Darkling Plain" July 1991
"Medication Consultation" June 1991
"Sentimental Journey" May 1991
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"Wonderland" April 1991
"Trust and Its Antonyms" March 1991
"Upon Mature Consideration" February 1991
"Darkness Obscured" January 1991
"Dramatics" December 1990
"Dino or Dodo?" November 1990
"Construction" October 1990
"Love and Remembrance" September 1990
"See Below" August 1990
"Family Matters" July 1990
"Marry Her, Marry Her" June 1990
"What Else We Know" May 1990
"Così fan tutte" April 1990
"The New You" March 1990
"Eschatology" February 1990
"Ouch" January 1990
"Fraud and Abuse" December 1989
"Overcoming" November 1989
"Improbable Dream" October 1989
"The Gift of Not Giving" September 1989
"Telling Tales" August 1989
"Sick Love and Lovesickness" July 1989
"What's Left" June 1989
"Metamorphosis" May 1989
"I Know How You Must Feel" April 1989
"Hard Ride" March 1989
"Sly Fox and the Teachable Moment" February 1989
"Busman's Holiday" January 1989
"What's It Worth To You?" December 1988
"Psychotherapy As a Second Language" November 1988
"Stellar Advice" October 1988
"Matters of Taste" September 1988
"What Hurts" August 1988
"Love Feast" July 1988
"Actual Evidence" June 1988
"Climate of Opinion" May 1988
"Coming of Age in Psychiatry" April 1988
"How We Are" March 1988
"How We Broke That Story" February 1988
"The Third Man and the Third Ear" January 1988
"Heartbreak House" December 1987
"Foreign Entanglements" November 1987
"Aren't We Special" October 1987
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"Cultiver Notre Jardin" September 1987
"Love Again" August 1987
"Very Like a Whale" July 1987
"Referral" June 1987
"Patchwork" May 1987
"MacGuffin Down the Backstretch" April 1987
"Walla Walla Bing Bang" March 1987
"Romancing the Stone" February 1987
"Steeped in Error" January 1987
"Just Good Friends" December 1986
"Aping Business" November 1986
"Say What" October 1986
"Spoon River Analogy" September 1986
"Heuristics" August 1986
"Hello, Love" July 1986
"Refraction" June 1986
"The Dyer's Hand" May 1986
"Peccadilloes" April 1986
"Have It Your Way" March 1986
"The Mind-Mind-Body-Problem Problem" January 1986
"But I Know What I Like" December 1985
"The Limits of Power" October 1985
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Essay, "Peter Kramer: Perspectives," for Mental Health Infosource, on line at
www.mhsource.com:
"Risk Sports," May 1996
"PET Theories," April 1996
"Complex Gifts," March 1996
"The Science of the Novel"," February 1996
"Finding One Another," January 1996
Interview, "Up Front," with L MacFarquhar, Self
"Beauty," July 1999
"Knowing Others" June 1999
"Technology," May 1999
"Celebrity," April 1999
"Empathy," March 1999
"Arguments," February 1999
"The First Marriage," January 1999
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INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Against Depression,” Community Mental Health Conference, Naomi Ruth Cohen
Charitable Foundation, Evanston, IL, June 3, 2006
“Reductionism in Psychiatry,” Symposium, Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric
Association, Toronto, ON, May 24, 2006 [discussant]
“Mid-Life Crisis in Film and Television,” Symposium, Annual Meeting, American
Psychiatric Association, Toronto, ON, May 22, 2006 [discussant]
“Against Depression,” Author Series, New York Society Library, New York, NY, May
10, 2006
“The Prozac Revolution: Twelve Years Later,” Keynote Address, Annual Symposium,
Psychotherapy Networker, Washington, DC, March 17, 2006
“Depression in Primary Care Medicine,” Keynote Address, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation National Program Meeting, Amelia Island, FL, February 17, 2006
“Depression,” Temple EmanuEl, Providence, RI, December 11, 2005
“The Psychotherapy of Depression,” Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic
Psychology, Providence, RI, December 7. 2005
“The Writer’s Life,” Morse College, Yale University, New Haven, CT, November 9,
2005
“Writing about Mood,” Harvard Club of Boston, Boston, MA, November 16. 2005
“Judaism and Values in Psychiatry,” Detroit Jewish Book Fair, Farmington Hills,
MI, November 7, 2005
“Depression and Primary Care,” Annual Conference on Integration of Medical and
Behavioral Health, Blackstone Valley Community Health Care, Pawtucket, RI,
November 4, 2005
“Against Depression,” Community Health Seminar, Northeastern Vermont
Regional Hospital, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, VT, October 1,
2005
“Against Depression,” Grand Rounds, Cambridge Hospital Department of
Psychiatry, Cambridge, MA, September 28, 2005
“Depression,” Open Mind Series, Picower Institute, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, September 19, 2005 [PD Kramer host, presenter,
and discussant]
“Enhancing Human Nature,” International Ethics Workshop, Carnegie Endowment
for Ethics and International Affairs, New York, NY, November 18-19, 2004
“Against Depression,” Scholar Series, Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, Tisbury,
MA, July 28, 2004
“Ethical Issues in the Psychopharmacology of Mood,” New York Academy of Sciences,
New York, NY, July 12-13, 2004
“Narrative Truths,” Symposium on The Psychiatrist as Writer, Annual Meeting,
American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May 2, 2004
“Surviving Depression,” Inaugural Fountain House Symposium, New York, NY, May
2, 2004
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
15
“Depression as an Illness,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, East
Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, April 16, 2003
“Against Depression,” Forum on Ethics of Psychopharmacology, Boston Colloquium
for Philosophy of Science, Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of
Science, February 23, 2004
“The Collapse of Melancholy,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, School of
Medicine, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, January 13,
2003
“The Doctor as Writer,” Inaugural Abraham Thomas Memorial Lecture,
Department of Medicine and Humanities, University of Texas Health
Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, January 12, 2003
“What do we do when people die?” (debate), Conference: The Anatomy of Loss, Nexus
Institute, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 2, 2003
“Happiness and Depression,” Brown Faculty Forum, Brown University, Providence,
RI, October 18, 2003
“Against Depression,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, New York, NY, October 16, 2003
“Better Than Prozac,” (Kramer PD, chair), Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric
Association, San Francisco, CA, May 21, 2003
“Against Depression,” Grand Rounds, Cornell University Department of Psychiatry,
New York, NY, May 14, 2003
Introduction, Thomas Moore, Literary Lights, Boston Public Library, Boston,
MA, April 6, 2003
“Erosion of the Obvious,” Mind/Brain/Behavior Graduate Fellows, Harvard
University, April 4, 2003
Clinical Brain Sciences Interest Group (Kramer PD, panelist), Brown
University School of Medicine, February 27, 2003
“Sunshine,” Medical Student Health Awareness Lecture, Brown University
School of Medicine, Providence, RI, February 6, 2003
“Revisualization: Medication and Mood,” Northern California Psychiatric
Society, San Francisco, CA, November 2, 2002
“Prozac Echoes: Listening Ten Years Later,” Bryant College, Smithfield, RI,
October 24, 2002
“Bioengineering the Soul?” St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, University of
Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, October 8, 2002
“Happiness and Sadness: Depression and the Pharmacological Elevation of
Mood,” President’s Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, September 12,
2002
“The Love Life of Melancholics,” Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association,
Philadelphia, PA, May 20, 2002
“Depression and its Treatments,” Initiative on Technology and Self, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, April 30, 2002
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
16
“Picasso’s Images of Casagemas,” Evocative Objects Workshop, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, April 30, 2002
“Women and Depression,” Keynote presentation, Women’s Wellness Workshop,
Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, April 6, 2002
“Kierkegaard and the Nature of Depression,” Oration, Phi Beta Kappa convocation,
Brown University, Providence, RI, March 5, 2002
“The Future of Psychiatry,” State of Mind: America 2002, National Press Club,
Washington, DC, February 7, 2002
“The Kierkegaard Question,” Zum Glück Conference, Einstein Forum, Potsdam,
Germany, December 14, 2001
“Spectacular Happiness,” McGill University Enhancement Technologies Group,
Charleston, SC, November 25, 2001
“Consuming Depression,” (Discussant), Society for the Social Study of Science,
Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA, November 3, 2001
“Author Meets Critic: Tanya Luhrman,” Society for the Social Study of Science,
Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA, November 3, 2001
“Psychiatrist as Writer,” Class Symposium, Harvard Medical Alumni Association,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, June 7, 2001
"Profound Unhappiness: How Should We Value Depression?" Perspectives on Moral
Psychology Series, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, April 26, 2001
Reading, Spectacular Happiness, Russell House series, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT, April 25, 2001
Commencement Address, Residency Graduation, Department of Psychiatry, Yale
University School of Medicine, June 16. 2000
“What Do We Talk About When We Are Paying Someone to Listen?” New York
Times Magazine symposium, published May 7, 2000
“The Future of Mental Health Care,” Symposium, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY,
April 11, 2000
“Cosmetic Psychopharmacology,” 2000 Scientific Meeting, Chicago Chapter of the
Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, March 3, 2000
"Dilemmas of Intimacy," Hallmark Creative Leadership Conference, Kansas City,
MO, February 28, 2000
"May We Use What We Know?" Massachusetts Association of Psychoanalytic
Psychology (MAPP), Cambridge, MA, September 28, 1999
“Affect and Autonomy: Questioning Values,” S!t!e!p!h!e!n! !R!o!b!e!r!t! !I!n!i!t!i!a!t!i!v!e! !i!n! !V!a!l!u!e!s!,
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"Dilemmas of Intimacy," Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association
Auxiliary, Washington, DC, May 18, 1999
"Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Dysthymia," Department of Psychiatry Clinical
Day, Toronto East General Hospital, Toronto, ON, May 7, 1999
"The Practical in Psychotherapy," Harry Stack Sullivan Lecture, Enoch and
Sheppard Pratt Hospitals, Towson, MD, April 17, 1999
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
17
"Women and Depression," Symposium on Women and Health, Pembroke Center,
Brown University, Providence, RI, March 12, 1999
"Self-definition," TED9 Conference, Monterey, CA, February 18, 1999
"Is This as Good as it Gets?" Rose Boldman Memorial Lecture, Jewish General
Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, November 14, 1998
"Psychopharmacology and the Self," Smithsonian Associates, Freud/Library of
Congress series, Washington, D. C., November 5, 1998
"UnShellfish Remarks," IgNobel Awards Ceremony, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, October 8, 1998
"Dilemmas of Intimacy," National Mental Health Awareness Week, Fairmount
Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, October 7, 1998
"Cosmetic Psychopharmacology," Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry,
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, October 2,
1998
"Dilemmas of Intimacy," Transitional Living Services, Twentieth Anniversary
Lecture, Albuquerque, NM, October 1, 1998
"'Kill All Your Little Darlings,'" Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA, July 14,
1998
"Personality Disorders," Conference: Interaction between Practice and Research,
French-American Psychiatric Meeting, Paris, France, June 8, 1998
"Dilemmas of Intimacy," Hartford Forum, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT, May 19,
1998
"'Should You Leave?' The Writer's Perspective," Brown Humanities Institute, Brown
University, Providence, RI, May 6, 1998
"Mental Health and Psychological Enhancement," Rhode Island Academy of Family
Physicians, Providence, RI, April 18, 1998
"Through a Glass Darkly: Examining the Melancholic Perspective," McGill
University Enhancement Technologies Group, University College, University of
London, London, England March 4, 1998
"Combining Medication and Psychotherapy," U. S. Psychiatric and Mental Health
Congress, Orlando, FL, November 1997
"Should You Leave?: Couple Relationships," U. S. Psychiatric and Mental Health
Congress, Orlando, FL, November 1997
"The Psychiatrist as Advisor," Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association,
San Diego, CA, May 1997
"Listening to Prozac," Faculty/Staff Educational Seminar, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, April 17, 1997
"Autonomy and Connection in Intimate Relationships," Psychiatry Grand Rounds,
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, April 17, 1997
"Falling Out of Love," Jacob Finesinger Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore,
MD, April 16, 1997
"Falling Out of Love," Literature and Medicine Symposium, Brown University, April
5, 1997
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
18
"Falling Out of Love—A Psychiatrist Explores Advice and Matters of the Heart,"
Sidney Isenberg Lecture, Atlanta, GA, April 3, 1997
"Thinking About Advice," Joint meeting: Connecticut Society for Social
work/Connecticut Psychiatric Society, January 23, 1997
"Antidepressants and Self-Esteem." Clarkson Hospital, Omaha, NE, November 22,
1996
"Why vote? They're all the same anyway," forum, AS220, Providence, RI. October 1,
1996
"Indications for Clinical Use of Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors," Wenner-Gren Center
Foundation Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, August 31, 1996
"Technology and Enhancement of Human Functioning: Ethical Considerations," The
Hastings Center, Briarcliffe Manor, NY, May 23, 1996
"The Shape We're In," Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association, New
York, NY, May 1996
"The Psychiatrist as Writer," Workshop presentation, Annual Meeting, American
Psychiatric Association, New York, NY, May 1996
"The Persistence of Personality," Association for Research on Personality Disorders,
New York, NY, May 1996
"The Biology of Self-Esteem," Jewish Family and Children's Service of Boston,
Bentley College, Waltham, MA, April 26, 1996
"Creations, Cures, and Caveats: How Drugs Reinvent the Self," Plenary Address, Of
Apples and Origins II: The Brain Mind, and Human Meaning, New Hampshire
Humanities Council, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, April 20, 1996
"Qu'est-ce que la psychopharmacologie cosmétique?" Parole, Médicament,
Changement, congress organized by the Centre médico-psychologique, Delémont,
Switzerland, March 2, 1996
"Que nous disent les patients en psychothérapie lorsqu'ils prennent des
psychotropes," Parole, Médicament, Changement, congress organized by the
Centre médico-psychologique, Delémont, Switzerland, March 1, 1996
"Falling Out of Love," Distinguished Lecturer Series, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI, February 8, 1996
"From 'Hysteroid Dysphoria' to 'Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder'," response to case
presentation by R. G. Kainer, Ph. D., American Academy of Psychoanalysis,
Boston, MA, December 1995
"Medication and the Modern Self," AMI-Promise (Alliance for the Mentally Ill,
Syracuse region), Syracuse, NY, November 2, 1995
"Ethical Implications of Antidepressant Use," Cornell United Religious Work,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 1995
Symposium, Psychopharmacology and Identity, Society of Duke Fellows, Duke
University, Chapel Hill, NC, October 1995
"Should You Leave?" Couple Therapy continuing education course, The Cambridge
Hospital, Cambridge, MA, October 1995
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
19
"Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy," The New School for Social Research, New
York, NY, October 1995
"Should You Leave? Advice in Psychotherapy," Department of Psychiatry, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, September 1995
"SSRIs in General Practice," Minneapolis Society of Internal Medicine, Minneapolis,
MN, September 1995
"Controversial Drug Issues: Fluoxetine," Teleconference (by remote), Addiction
Research Foundation, Toronto, ON, September 15, 1995
"The Psychiatrist as Writer," Workshop presentation, Annual Meeting, American
Psychiatric Association, Miami, FL, May 1995
"Interface between Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology," George T. Harding III
1995 Spring Symposium, Fawcett Center, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH, April 20, 1995
"Listening to Prozac: Self-Esteem," George T. Harding III 1995 Spring Symposium,
Fawcett Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 20, 1995
"Attending to Self-Esteem," 1995 Harding Community Lecture for the HardingEvans Foundation, Worthington, OH, April 19, 1995
"SSRIs: Myth and Reality," Annual meeting, Scandinavian Society For
Psychopharmacology, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 7, 1995
"Glück auf Rezept?" Munich Press Club, Munich Germany, April 6, 1995
"Capitation and Managed Care, and Their Effects upon the Practice of Psychiatry
and the Doctor/Patient Relationship," Panel, Rhode Island Psychiatric Society,
Providence, RI, Monday, Feburary 6, 1995
"What it Means to be Human," Temple EmanuEl, Providence, RI, January 31, 1995
"Inferiority Redux," Judge Bernard Tomson Memorial Lecture, North Shore
University Hospital, Manhasset, NY, December 9, 1994
"The Role of Advice in Psychotherapy," U. S. Psychiatric Congress, Washington, D.
C., November 1994
"Pharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy," U. S. Psychiatric Congress, Washington, D.
C., November 1994
Clinical Case Conference, Regional Psychopharmacology Rounds, Harvard
Community Health Plan, Medford, MA, November 4, 1994
"Attending to Self-Esteem," New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY,
November 2, 1994
"Biological and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on the Self," Grand Rounds,
Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein Medical School, New York, NY,
November 2, 1994
"The New Psychopharmacology: Changing Views of Medication and the Self,"
Clinical Symposium, Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts
Mental Health Center, Boston, MA, October 31, 1994
"Listening to Prozac," YPO East Central Area College, Boston, MA, October 22,
1994
"Writing Advice," Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Iowa City, IA, October 13, 1994
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
20
"Self-Esteem as a Social Value and Quasi-Biological Trait," College of Medicine
Lecture, University of Iowa Clinical Epidemiology Symposium, Iowa City, IA,
October 12, 1994
"Listening to Prozac: Use of Medication as a Window on the Self," University of Iowa
Clinical Epidemiology Symposium, Iowa City, IA, October 12, 1994
"Writing About Prozac," Het Andere Boek, Belgian Booksellers' Convention,
Antwerp, Belgium, September 30, 1994
"Listening to Depression," 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, June 1994
"Medication and Self-Esteem," Grand Rounds, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, June
1994
"Psychotherapy in Psychiatry: Psychopharmacology," Symposium presentation,
Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 1994
"The Psychiatrist as Writer," Workshop presentation, Annual Meeting, American
Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 1994
"Opening a Private Practice," Workshop presentation, Annual Meeting, American
Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 1994
"Listening to Prozac: Research Opportunities," Psychopharmacology Lecture Series,
Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA, April 1994.
"Depression and Self-Esteem," Annual Meeting, Northern California Psychiatric
Society, Olympic Village, CA, April 1994
"Pharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy," CME, Inc., Conference, San Francisco, CA,
May 1994
"Is There a Role for Cosmetic Pharmacology?" CME, Inc., Conference, San Francisco,
CA, May 1994
"Self-Esteem," Falmouth Forum, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA,
March 1994
"Biological Perspectives on Personality," Grand Rounds, Tufts University
Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA, February 1994
"Self -Esteem," Grand Rounds, Psychiatry Department, University Of
Massachusetts Medical School, Wooster, MA, December 1993
"Self-Esteem," Philadelphia Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, Philadelphia, PA,
December 1993
"Writing About Mental Health," Miami Book Fair International, Miami, FL,
November 21, 1993
"Politics and Prozac," Commonwealth Club/Stamford Alumni Association, Palo
Alto, CA, November 18, 1993
"Pharmacology of Self-Esteem," U. S. Psychiatric Congress, San Diego, CA,
November 1993
"Listening to Prozac: Discussion," U. S. Psychiatric Congress, San Diego, CA,
November 1993
"Chatting About Prozac," Psychosocial Research Rounds, McLean Hospital,
Belmont, MA, October 25, 1993
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
21
"Prozac: Ethics Roundtable," Rhode Island Psychiatric Society, Providence, RI,
October 18, 1993
"Psychopharmacology and Personality Change," American Psychiatric Association
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 1993
"Coping with Managed Care," Roundtable Discussion, American Psychiatric
Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 1993
"Listening to Drugs: Self-Esteem," Grand Rounds, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Brookline, MA, March 9, 1993.
"Pharmacology and Psychotherapy: Self-Esteem," Inaugural Jeffrey Greenbaum
Memorial Lecture, Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New
York, NY, March 3, 1993
"Listening to Drugs: Rejection Sensitivity," Grand Rounds, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH,
November 18, 1992
"Listening to Drugs: Self-Esteem," Cincinnati Psychiatric Society, Cincinnati, OH,
November 18, 1992
"Listening to Drugs: The Influence of Psychotherapeutic Medication on
Psychotherapy," 75th Anniversary Celebration, Timberlawn Foundation, Dallas,
TX, October 30, 1992
"Practice Guidelines," Roundtable Discussion, American Psychiatric Association
Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., May 5, 1992
"Opening a Private Practice," Workshop, American Psychiatric Association Annual
Meeting, Washington, D. C., May 4, 1992
"Modern Neurosis and the Changing Geography of Psychiatry," Keynote Address,
Annual Meeting, Massachusetts Psychiatric Association, Newton, MA, April 21,
1991.
"Practice Guidelines," Symposium Presentation, Annual Meeting, Tennessee
Psychiatric Association, Nashville, TN, April 10, 1992
"Sensitivity," Keynote Address, Annual Meeting, Tennessee Psychiatric Association,
Nashville, TN, April 9, 1992
"Listening to Drugs: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria," Grand Rounds, McLean
Hospital, Belmont MA, November 15, 1992
"Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria," Didactic Rounds, Behavioral Medicine Program,
Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, October 1991
"Opening a Private Practice," Workshop, American Psychiatric Association Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 1991
"Ethical Issues and Mood Brighteners," Symposium Presentation, American
Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 1991
"Empathy in the Psychopharmacologic Era," CME, Inc., Conference, Orlando, FL,
February 1991
"Advice and Opinion in Psychotherapy," CME, Inc., Conference, Orlando, FL,
February 1991
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
22
"Empathy in the Psychopharmacologic Era," U. S. Psychiatric Congress, San Diego,
CA, December 1990
"Sailing Close to the Wind: Boundaries in Psychotherapy," U. S. Psychiatric
Congress, San Diego, CA, December 1990
"May We Use What We Know?" Annual Meeting, Arizona Psychiatric Society,
Sedona, AZ, October 1990
"Empathy in the Psychopharmacologic Era," Annual Meeting, Arizona Psychiatric
Society, Sedona, AZ, October 1990
"May We Use What We Know?" Annual Meeting, Capital Region Psychiatric
Society, Lake Placid, NY, October 1990
"Empathy in the Psychopharmacologic Era," Annual Meeting, Capital Region
Psychiatric Society, Lake Placid, NY, October 1990
"The Future of Psychotherapy in Psychiatry," Inaugural Wolfe Adler Lecture, Enoch
and Sheppard Pratt Hospitals, Towson, MD, September 1990
"May We Use What We Know?" Residents' Day Address, The Institute of Living,
Hartford, CT, June 1990
"The Anxiety of the Private Practitioner: Family Matters," Component Workshop,
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, May 1990
"Brief Psychotherapy: Clinical and Research Issues," (Kramer PD, discussant)
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, May 1990
"Opening a Private Practice: Optimal Anxiety," Workshop, American Psychiatric
Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, May 1990
"Normal Psychological Development in Middle Adulthood," Faculty Retreat, The
Lincoln School, Providence, RI, March 1990
"Moments of Engagement: Medication and the Imagination," Business Colloquium,
Brown Humanities Institute, Providence, RI, March 1990
"Medication and the Mind," Faculty Study Group, Human Values in Medicine
Program, Brown University, Providence, RI, January 1990
"Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy: Four College Students" The Brown Club,
Boston, MA, November 1989
"Empathy in the Psychopharmacologic Era," U. S. Psychiatric Congress, New York,
NY, November 1989
"Sailing Close to the Wind: Boundaries in Psychotherapy," U. S. Psychiatric
Congress, New York, NY, November 1989
"The Anxiety of the Therapist at Mid-Career," Component Workshop, American
Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 1989
"Three Years Before the Masthead: Reflections of a Psychiatric Columnist," Butler
Hospital Staff Association Didactic Rounds, October 1988
"Drug-Psychotherapy Interactions," CME, Inc., Conference, Kauai, Hawaii, March
1988
"Does Psychotherapy Work?" CME, Inc., Conference, Kauai, Hawaii, March 1988
"Good Faith and the Mind-Body Problem," Scientific Program, Institute of
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, January 1988
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
23
"Is Empathy Necessary?" Didactic Rounds, Marriage Council of Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, January 1988
"Drug-Psychotherapy Interactions," CME, Inc., Conference, New Orleans, LA,
December 1987
"Does Psychotherapy Work?" CME, Inc., Conference, Orlando, FL, December 1986
"Combining Psychotherapies," CME, Inc., Conference, Orlando, FL, December 1986
"The Hidden Mental Health Network for the Elderly," American Psychiatric
Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., May1986
"Acceptance of Hepatitis B Vaccine among Health Care Personnel," (with
Bodenheimer H, Fulton JP), 1984 International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis,
March 1984
"The Hidden Mental Health Network: Treatment of Illness in Primary Care Office
Practices," (with Schurman R, Mitchell JB), American Public Health
Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, 1983
"Preventive Psychiatry: A Research Perspective," (Kramer PD, discussant),
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, NY, NY, May 1983
"What Future for the Social Sciences in Psychiatry?" (Kramer PD, chair), American
Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, May 1982
"Efficacy and Reimbursement; Shotgun Wedding?" (Kramer PD, chair), American
Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, May 1982
"Research for Maternal and Child Health: ADAMHA's Role" Conference on
Maternal and Child Health, Florence Heller School, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA, 1981
"Treatment Assessment and States' Research," National Association of State
Mental Health Research Directors, Arlington, VA, 1981
"Treatment Assessment and Reimbursement in Mental Health," Grand Rounds,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, 1980
"Psychotherapy Assessment: Current Status," Grand Rounds, St. Elizabeth's
Hospital, Washington, D. C., 1980
RADIO ANCHORING/EDITING
“The Infinite Mind,” Lichtenstein Creative Media [syndicated public radio]
“Shock Docs,” [in progress]
“Winning II” [in progress]
“Winning I” [in progress]
“Aging and Memory” 2006
“What’s in a Name?” 2006
“Four Lives II” 2006
“Four Lives I” 2006
“Neuroprosthetics,” 2006
“Empathy,” 2005
“Hypomania,” 2005
“Shoplifting,” 2005
Curriculum Vitae
Peter D. Kramer
24
“Educated Mental Health Consumer,” 2005
“In the Wake of the Storm: Recovery” 2005
“In the Wake of the Storm: Trauma” 2005
“Religion,” 2005
“Food and Mood,” 2005
“Midlife,” 2005
“Music of the Infinite Mind,” 2005
“Funniest Moments,” 2005
“Multitasking,” 2005
“Asperger’s Syndrome II ,” 2005
“Asperger’s Syndrome I,” 2005
“Electroconvulsive Therapy,” 2005
“Writer’s Block,” 2005
“Fame,” April 2004
“In Any Language: Mental Health Care for Immigrants,” April 2003 (winner,
2003 National Mental Health Association award)
“Depression and the Brain,” March 2003
“Domestic Violence,” March 2003 (winner, 2003 Gracie award)
“The Hidden Costs of Mental Illness,” May 2002