About PDK

Peter D. Kramer is the author of eight books, including Ordinarily Well, Against Depression, Should You Leave?, the novels Spectacular Happiness and Death of the Great Man, and the international bestseller Listening to Prozac. Dr. Kramer hosted the nationally syndicated public radio program The Infinite Mind and has appeared on the major broadcast news and talk shows, including Today, Good Morning America, Oprah, Charlie Rose, and Fresh Air. His essays, op-eds, and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and elsewhere, on topics ranging from mental health to medical ethics to national politics. Dr. Kramer practiced psychiatry and taught psychotherapy in Providence, Rhode Island, for nearly forty years. He now writes full time and is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University.