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Peter D. Kramer

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Dr. Peter Kramer is a psychiatrist based in Providence, RI, with a focus on depression. He completed his psychiatry residency at Yale-New Haven Medical Center after earning his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completing an internal medicine internship at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. Since 2016, he has served as a Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School. Dr. Kramer has authored several publications, including "Death of the Great Man" (2023), "Listening to Prozac" (1993 and now it a 30th anniversary edition), and other research articles in well-regarded journals, which have been cited multiple times. He has received a Presidential Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association and was listed in "Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare" by Marquis Who's Who.

Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 1977 - 1980
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and ClinicsInternship, Internal Medicine, 1976 - 1977
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1976

PubMed

Prozac: better than well.
Peter D Kramer
The Lancet. Psychiatry. 2016-01-01
2 citations
The truth about Prozac: an exchange.
Peter D. Kramer, Gerald Curzon, Evan Hughes, Frederick Crews
The New York Review of Books. 2008-02-14
3 citations
Real impairments, real treatments.
Peter D. Kramer
The American Journal of Bioethics. 2005-01-01