Norman Kreitman

Norman Kreitman (July 5, 1927 - December 15, 2012)[1][2] was a psychiatric researcher and academic, based in Edinburgh, primarily known for coining the term parasuicide. He was also a published poet of some distinction, and wrote perceptively on the philosophy of art - in particular, on the psychology of metaphor.[3]

Kreitman was born in London.[4] He received his medical training at Westminster Hospital, graduating in 1949, and worked at a tuberculosis hospital on the Isle of Wight before going into psychiatry. After training at the Maudsley hospital, he moved to Edinburgh in 1966.

In Edinburgh, he was Director of the Medical Research Council Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry.

Works

Psychiatry
  • Methods of psychiatric research: An introduction for clinical psychiatrists (1963)
  • Current Research on Suicide and Parasuicide (with S D Platt; 1988)

Poetry
  • Touching Rock (1987)
  • Against Leviathan (1989)
  • Casanova's 72nd Birthday (2003)
  • Dancing in the Dark: New and Selected Poems (2010)[5]

References
  1. Scottish Poetry Library: Norman Kreitman
  3. "Professor Norman Kreitman, FRCPE Edin". Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  4. Tait, David (1995), "Norman Kreitman : In conversation with David Tait" (PDF), Psychiatric Bulletin, 19: 296–301, doi:10.1192/pb.19.5.296
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2013-01-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  • Kreitman, N. (1977), Parasuicide, Chichester: Wiley.
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