Jeffrey A. Lieberman
Psychiatrist and author
Jeffrey A. Lieberman is a psychiatrist and former president of the American Psychiatric Association. He wrote Shrinks, a history of psychiatry.
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Born in New York City, United States
About Jeffrey A. Lieberman
Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD, is a psychiatrist who chairs the psychiatry department at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also directs the New York State Psychiatric Institute and has served as psychiatrist in chief of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, and in 2000 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He was born in New York City. In Shrinks, written with Ogi Ogas, he looks at the history of psychiatry, from the era of chaining people in cells to the field's path toward legitimacy as a branch of medicine.