About
Ronald Pies, M.D.

Ronald Pies MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston. He is the author of several psychiatric textbooks; as well as of Everything Has Two Handles: The Stoic’s Guide to the Art of Living, Becoming a Mensch (Hamilton Books), The Judaic Foundations of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and Ziprin's Ghost, a collection of short stories (Harvard Book Store).

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Posts by Ronald Pies, M.D.:

• Punishing Poets is Not the Way to Stop School Violence
  07 Jan 2013
• Newtown, Narcissism, and the Romancing of Rage
  23 Dec 2012
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: Why Medical Ethics Must Sometimes Trump the Patient’s Choice
  07 Oct 2012
• Merciful Assistance or Physician-Assisted Killing?
  30 Sep 2012
• Fending Off Life’s Slings and Arrows, Such as Divorce, with Stoicism
  07 Aug 2012
• My Father’s T-shirts: Reflections on Father’s Day
  16 Jun 2012
• How the Public is Being Misinformed about Grief
  28 Feb 2012
• “Hysteria” in LeRoy: A Skeptic’s View
  13 Feb 2012
• Why Psychiatry Needs to Scrap the DSM System: An Immodest Proposal
  07 Jan 2012
• Doctor, Is My Mood Disorder Due to a Chemical Imbalance?
  04 Aug 2011
• Muzzling Doctors Who Ask Questions About Gun Safety
  19 May 2011
• Has Psychiatry Really Abandoned Psychotherapy? Behind the New York Times Story
  03 Apr 2011