Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age

by Peter D. Kramer

Overview

Through fascinating case histories and revealing encounters with patients, Dr. Kramer provides a compassionate, immensely eloquent view of how psychiatry really works. Written by the author of the national bestseller, Listening to Prozac.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393700756
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/17/1989
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Peter D. Kramer, M.D., recently named host of the national, weekly public radio series, The Infinite Mind, is "possibly the best-known psychiatrist in America," as The New York Times put it. Peter Kramer received his M.D. from Harvard and is the best-selling author of Listening to Prozac, Should You Leave?, Spectacular Happiness, and Moments of Engagement. His latest book, Against Depression, will be published in May 2005.

In 2004, two programs of The Infinite Mind hosted by Kramer won top media awards: a Gracie Allen Award from the American Women in Radio and Television for an examination of "Domestic Violence" and a National Mental Health Association Media Award for “Between Two Worlds: Mental Health for Immigrants. Kramer has written for The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book Review, The Washington Post, the (London) Times Literary Supplement and U.S. News & World Report, among other publications. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, and has a private practice.

Visit Dr. Peter D. Kramer on the web: http://www.peterdkramer.com 

The Infinite Mind: http://www.theinfinitemind.com/

Editorial Reviews

Kramer (psychiatry and human behavior, Brown U.) presents a series of stories about clinical paradoxes, and defines the role of tools used to help patients change. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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