Nassir Ghaemi
Nassir Ghaemi | |
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| Born | 1966 Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University (M.D.) Tufts University (M.A.) Harvard School of Public Health (MPH) |
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| Discipline | psychiatrist |
| Notable works | A First-Rate Madness |
| Website | http://www.nassirghaemi.com/ |
Nassir Ghaemi (born 1966) is an academic psychiatrist, author, and Professor of Psychiatry at
mood disorders, and has contributed to many scientific journals and other published works. Among his other views, Ghaemi is a proponent of the concept of manic depressive illness in the original Kraepelinian sense, an advocate for lithium therapy, and a critic of the DSM
diagnostic system, which he views as largely unscientific and invalid.
Life
He immigrated to the
Harvard School of Public Health in 2004.[1]
Works
- On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
- A First-Rate Madness
- The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry
- The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness
- A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health: Measuring Truth and Uncertainty
- Mood Disorders: A Practical Guide, Second Edition
References
- ^ Ghaemi, Nassir. "Biography". Nassir Ghaemi. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
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