The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
John R. Peteet
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John R. Peteet, M.D. has been a psychiatrist for over forty years at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. After receiving his M.D. degree at Columbia University, Dr. Peteet completed a medical internship at UNC in Chapel Hill, a residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and a fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Boston. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he has received several teaching awards and published numerous papers in the areas of psychosocial oncology, addiction, and the clinical interface between spirituality/religion and psychiatry. He has authored or co-edited 10 books, including Doing the Right Thing: An Approach to Moral Issues in Mental Health Treatment, Depression and the Soul and The Soul of Medicine: Spiritual Perspectives and Clinical Practice. He is the recipient of the APA's Oskar Pfister Award and is past president of the American Psychiatric Association's Caucus on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry.
Contributors:
C. Robert Cloninger
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Kevin M. Cloninger
Nicholas Covaleski
PhD Student
Department of Religion
Boston University
Boston, MA
Paul Gilbert
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Centre for Compassion Research and Training
University of Derby
Derby, UK
Lilian Jans-Beken
Senior Researcher
The Thriving Human Science Center
Venray, NL
Warren Kinghorn
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University
Durham, NC
Jerome Kroll
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Department of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN
Perry C. Mason
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
Carleton College
Northfield, MN
John R. Peteet
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Nancy N. Potter
Professor of Philosophy Emerita and Adjunct in Psychiatry (Retired)
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Michael R. Tom
Resident
Department of Psychiatry
Beth Israel Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
David R. Vago
Research Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Tyler J. VanderWeele
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Charlotte Witvliet
Lavern '39 and Betty DePree '41 VanKley Professor of Psychology
Psychology Department
Hope College
Holland, MI
Everett Worthington
Commonwealth Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA