Psychiatrist and Author

Peter Kramer

1 article 1997

Peter Kramer is a psychiatrist and author best known for his bestselling book 'Listening to Prozac.' He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1997, writing about the contested legacy of psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim. He has written extensively on psychiatry, psychology, and the cultural dimensions of mental health treatment.

THE BATTLE OVER BETTELHEIM

April 7, 1997 · Magazine, Books and Arts

The creation of the myth of Bruno Bettelheim begins in the American Midwest during the Second World War. A recent immigrant from Nazi Europe, Bettelheim applied for a position at Rockford College in Illinois, using an impressive, and in those years unverifiable, curriculum vitae. It said he had…