Donald F. Klein

Donald F. Klein
Born
Donald Franklin Klein

(1928-09-04)September 4, 1928
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedAugust 7, 2019(2019-08-07) (aged 90)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma materColby College
New York University
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
OccupationPsychiatrist
Spouse
Rachel Kravetz
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(m. 1967)​
Children5

Donald Franklin Klein (September 4, 1928 – August 7, 2019)[1] was an American psychiatrist known for his work on anxiety disorders.[2]

From 1976 until his emeritate in 2006, he was professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York[3] and medical director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

He is well known for his approach to psychopharmacological dissection, which, he argued, allowed one to 'pierce through the fascinating, confusing web of symptoms and dysfunctions to tease out the major participant variables by attending to specific drug effects'.[4] [5]

  1. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (August 16, 2019). "Donald Klein, Who Expanded the Psychiatric Toolbox, Dies at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
  2. ^ Shorter, Edward (2013). How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown. OUP USA. pp. 141–42. ISBN 9780199948086.
  3. ^ Carey, Benedict (17 January 2008). "Antidepressant Studies Unpublished". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  4. ^ Klein Donald F. Anxiety Reconceptualized. In: Klein Donald F, Rabkin Judith G., editors. Anxiety: New Research and Changing Concepts. New York: 1981. pp. 235–62. on 242.
  5. ^ Callard, Felicity (2016). "The Intimate Geographies of Panic Disorder: Parsing Anxiety through Psychopharmacological Dissection". Osiris. 31 (1): 203–226. doi:10.1086/688503. PMC 5402871. PMID 28446834.