Specialties and Services
My Expertise
Psychiatric Diagnosis
My approach is to treat diseases, not symptoms, and the approach to diagnosis needs to go beyond DSM where that approach is not shown to be valid.
Psychopharmacology
All drugs are either symptomatic or disease-modifying. Symptomatic drugs are helpful short-term but not long-term, and vice versa for disease-modifying drugs. Listen to my podcast where I explain this approach.
Consultation
I can provide a game plan to change your treatment plan, which your clinician can implement, with my ongoing consultation. See examples of my approach in “Curbside Consults” on my clinical website.
My Background
Clinical Training and Academic Positions
I have been practicing clinical psychiatry for about 30 years. I have worked in an academic setting most of that time, also doing research and teaching. I trained at Harvard Medical School in the McLean Hospital residency program (1991-1994) and also completed an internship in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (1990) as well as a research fellowship in mood disorders at MGH (1994-95). I then worked as an assistant professor of psychiatry at my medical alma mater, Virginia Commonwealth University and later at Georgetown and George Washington Universities. I returned to Harvard as an assistant professor at MGH and Cambridge Hospitals, then worked as an associate professor at Emory University, and then since 2008 have been a full professor of psychiatry at Tufts University, as well as a lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
I have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, and other major media. Among my books, A First-Rate Madness was a national bestseller and was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere.
You can follow me on the following websites and social media, among others:
https://twitter.com/nassirghaemi
You can listen to my podcast, the Ghaemi Psychiatry podcast on Apple and Spotify and Substack and elsewhere, as well as on www.ghaemipodcast.com
From Wikipedia (edited):
Nassir Ghaemi is an academic psychiatrist, author, and Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He has written several books on mental illness and mood disorders, and has contributed to many scientific journals and other published works.
He immigrated to the United States at the age of 5 from Tehran, Iran. He received his B.A. from George Mason University in 1986, and later a medical degree from Medical College of Virginia. He then went on to get an MA in philosophy from Tufts University in 2001, and a MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. His books include:
- A First-Rate Madness: Exploring the Links between Mental Illness and Leadership
- On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
- The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry
- The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness
- A Clinician’s Guide to Statistics in Mental Health:
- Mood Disorders: A Practical Guide, Second Edition
- Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice
Contact Me
Ask a question or book an appointment by email at ghaemioffice@gmail.com
For emergencies call 911 or visit your nearest hospital