Peter Kramer Net Worth & Biography

Mr. Peter Kramer is a medical doctor and one of the best-known psychiatrists in the United States of America. He is a faculty member of Brown Medical School and is a specialist in the area of clinical depression.

Kramer won international acclaim in the 1990s when he published his bestselling book “Listening to Prozac”. He attended Harvard University from where he graduated with his M.D., and spent his career in Brown University’s psychiatry department where he currently serves as a Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. He has also authored six other books talking about psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and psychiatry. Here’s an article talking about Mr. Peter Kramer’s net worth birthed by his stellar career as one of the most renowned and inspirational psychiatrists in the world. Read on for more details.

Early Life: Childhood, Education

Doctor Peter D. Kramer was born in New York City, New York, United States, on October 22, 1948. His parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors.

After completing his high school education, Peter joined Harvard University for a Bachelor of Arts degree which he earned in 1970. He spent a few years at Harvard, still, for his M.D.

He also studied at Marhsall Scholar in literature at University College London, England, from 1970 to 1972.

Professional Life: Successful Career

Peter Kramer is a former Marshall Scholar. He is a faculty member of Brown Medical School where he specializes in the affliction of depression. A medical doctor and psychiatrist, Kramer considers depression a serious problem with tangible physiological effects that include and aren’t limited to disorganizing the brain and unsettling the functions of the cardiovascular system. He criticizes society for romanticizing depression-involving reports of artistic sensitivity or of genius caused by depression.

Kramer won international acclaim in the 1990s when he published his bestselling book “Listening to Prozac”. He has also authored six other books talking about psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and psychiatry.

In his 2005 book Against Depression, Kramer argues that the socio-economic costs of depression are tremendous and the effects are so pervasive that modern societies should put in work towards eradicating the disease as obstinately as it has with diseases like smallpox. His most notable book to date is the 1994 masterpiece “Listening to Prozac” which was grounded in the observation that, after receiving treatment with antidepressants, some patients reported feeling better. This result led the genius doctor to consider the viability of “cosmetic psychopharmacology,” the use of treatment in healthy people to induce personality qualities that are desired or socially satisfactory. Within the book, Doctor Kramer considers consequences for medical principles and critiques the propensity of the culture to prize particular personality styles, namely those categorized by energy and assertiveness. The book is commonly but incorrectly believed to support the use of the medication.

From 2005 through 2006, Peter Kramer served as principal anchor of the public radio program “The Infinite Mind”.

Books/Articles

• Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants (2016)
• Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind (2006)
• Against Depression (2005)
• Spectacular Happiness: A Novel (2001)
• Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy—and the Nature of Advice (1997)
• Listening to Prozac (1993)
• Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age (1989)
• “Why Doctors Need Stories”, The New York Times (2014)
• “In Defense of Antidepressants”, The New York Times (2011)
• “The Valorization of Sadness” (from The Hastings Center Report) (2000)

Peter Kramer Net Worth: Salary, Income Sources, Assets

Asides from his roles in the field of medicine, nothing else is known about this seasoned psychiatrist. The identities of his family members and relatives have never been given in the media, and it seems like this successful medical doctor enjoys privatizing a lot of things. As of this writing, Peter Kramer’s net worth is 10 billion dollars. He has earned his wealth mainly from his successful career as an American psychiatrist who happens to be one of the most respected and experienced in the field. He won international acclaim in the 1990s when he published his bestselling book “Listening to Prozac”, and in addition to his six other books talking about psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and psychiatry, Peter surely earns extra income from writing and publishing. He has also appeared on TV severally to provide answers to important questions about depression and how to cope with several psychological issues. A Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Kramer is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and also often reviews books (in Slate, Washington Post, and New York Times Book Review). For the most part of his career, he has been mostly out and openly campaigning to win the “antidepressant wars” in favor of antidepressants.