Peter D. Kramer

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. 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.

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

 * 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

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

Articles

 * "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

 * "After Alice Left" TriQuarterly, #135/136 (2010)
 * "The Name of the Helper", Prick of the Spindle (2010)
 * "Permutations", Summerset Review (2011)