Gary Greenberg (psychologist)

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Gary Greenberg
Born
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationBrooklyn College
University of Wichita
Kansas State University
Scientific career
FieldsComparative psychology
Developmental psychology
InstitutionsWichita State University
Thesis The effects of ambient temperature and population density on aggression in two strains of mice  (1970)

Gary Greenberg is a practicing psychotherapist based in Connecticut. He has four books, also he is a contributing writer to Mother Jones, and a contributing editor at Harper's. In addition to these publications, his articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and McSweeney's, among others. His work has been frequently anthologised, and he received the Erik Erikson Award for mental health reporting.

Bio

Greenberg was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.S. degree from Brooklyn College in 1961, followed by an M.A. degree from the University of Wichita in 1964 and a Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 1970.[1] He then began working with Ethel Tobach in the Department of Animal Behavior at the American Museum of Natural History.[2] In 1983, Greenberg co-founded the Southwestern Comparative Psychology Association (with Michael Domjan, Del Thiessen, and Steve Davis) and the International Society for Comparative Psychology (with Ethel Tobach).[3] After teaching at Wichita State University for 40 years, he retired and moved to Chicago, Illinois.[4]

As of 2008, Greenberg is a life member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and secretary of the International Society of Comparative Psychology.[4] In 2015, he received the Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Service to Div. 6 Award from the APA's division 6, the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology.[5]

On Psychiatry

For recent years, the author and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has been popular among the readers with his two best-selling books, "Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease"[6] and "The Book of WOE: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry", which is about the American Psychiatric Association's compendium of mental illnesses [7][8].

Selected publications

Furthermore, as stated, the author has additional selected works, including articles and essays published in magazines, as follows:

  • Greenberg, Gary (July 01, 2001)."Serotonin Surprise". Discover Magazine
  • Greenberg, Gary (August 13, 2001). "As Good As Dead". The New Yorker[9]
  • Greenberg, Gary (November, 2003). "Is it Prozac? Or Placebo?" Mother Jones[10]
  • Greenberg, Gary (January, 2005). "The Condemned". Mother Jones
  • Greenberg, Gary (November, 2005). "Respectable Reefer". Mother Jones
  • Greenberg, Gary (February, 2014). "Almighty Dollar". Harper's Magazine.
  • Greenberg, Gary (Summer 2015). "Confidence Man". Believer Magazine
  • Greenberg, Gary (March 2016). "Beginning to See the Light". Harper's Magazine

References

  1. "Gary Greenberg". Wichita State University. Archived from the original on 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  2. Greenberg, Gary (October 2008). "Psychology From the Standpoint of an Interbehaviorist: A Review of "Modern Perspectives on J. R. Kantor and Interbehaviorism". The Psychological Record. 58 (4): 665–676. doi:10.1007/bf03395643. ISSN 0033-2933. S2CID 149215316. Following my doctoral training at Kansas State University, he became associated with Ethel Tobach at the then influential Department of Animal Behavior at New York's American Museum of Natural History (Greenberg, Partridge, Weiss, & Pisula, 2004). The department was once headed by T. C. Schneirla, and he soon came under the influence of the approach to psychology that he espoused. The coincidence of his exposure to Kantorian and Schneirlerian (see Lazar, 1978) psychology has been brought to bear in his current intellectual involvement with developmental systems theory...
  3. Greenberg, Gary (November 2010). "Comparative Psychology and Ethology". The Behavioral Neuroscientist and Comparative Psychologist. Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  4. Harris, Richard (October 2008). "Alumni News" (PDF). Psytalk. Kansas State University. p. 8. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  5. "APA honors psychology's stars". Monitor on Psychology. American Psychological Association. September 2015. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  6. Greenberg, Gary. "Manufacturing Depression: From "Manufacturing Depression," which appeared in the May 2007 issue of Harper's Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine's entire 175-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. Once upon a time,…". Harper's Magazine. Vol. May 2007. ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved 2026-04-13.
  7. "Gary Greenberg | Author of The Book of Woe". www.garygreenbergonline.com. Retrieved 2026-04-13.
  8. rezendevknowfully.com (2015-02-07). "Gary Greenberg DSM Interview". Psychotherapy.net. Retrieved 2026-04-13.
  9. "Gary Greenberg - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2026-04-13.
  10. Greenberg, Gary. "Gary Greenberg". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2026-04-13.