Nassir Ghaemi

Nassir Ghaemi
Born Tehran, Iran
Academic background
Education McLean High School
Alma mater George Mason University (B.A.)
Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University (M.D.)
Tufts University (M.A.)
Harvard School of Public Health (MPH)
Academic work
Discipline psychiatrist
Notable works A First-Rate Madness
Website http://www.nassirghaemi.com/

Nassir Ghaemi is an academic psychiatrist, author, and Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 5 from Tehran, Iran and attended McLean High School in McLean, Virginia. He received his B.A. from George Mason University in 1986, and later a medical degree from Medical College of Virginia. He then went on to get an MA in philosophy from Tufts University in 2001, and a MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. He has written several books on mental illness and mood disorders, and has contributed to many scientific journals and other published works.[1]

Works

  • On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World[2]
  • A First-Rate Madness[3]
  • The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry[4]
  • The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness[5]
  • A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health: Measuring Truth and Uncertainty[6]
  • Mood Disorders: A Practical Guide, Second Edition[7]

References

  1. ↑ Ghaemi, Nassir. "Biography". Nassir Ghaemi. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World". amazon.com. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "A First-Rate Madness". amazon.com. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry". amazon.com. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness". amazon.com. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health: Measuring Truth and Uncertainty". amazon.com. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Mood Disorders: A Practical Guide". amazon.com. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.