Klein, Donald F.

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KLEIN, Donald F.

KLEIN, Donald F. American, b. 1928. Genres: Medicine/Health, Psychology. Career: U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Staten Island, NY, rotating intern, 1952-53; Creedmoor State Hospital, resident in psychiatry, 1953-54 and 1956-58; Creedmoor Institute for Psychobiologic Studies, research associate, 1957-59; Hillside Hospital, research associate, 1959-64, senior staff psychiatrist, 1965, director of research, 1965-70, medical director for evaluation, 1970-71; State University of New York at Stony Brook, professor of psychiatry, 1972-76; Columbia University, NYC, lecturer, 1976-78, professor of psychiatry, 1978-, director of Department of Therapeutics, 1976-, director of New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1976-. Qualified psychiatrist, State of New York; diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and American Board of Clinical Pharmacology. Queens Hospital Center, psychiatrist in chief, 1970-71, full attending psychiatrist, 1972-85; Presbyterian Hospital, attending psychiatrist, 1977-. Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, director of research and evaluation in psychiatry, 1972-76; New York State Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Research Center, director, 1978-. Queens College of the City University of New York, adjunct professor, 1969-92; visiting professor at University of Auckland, 1975, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, 1976-77, and University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1977, 1985, and 1986. Publications: (with J.M. Davis) Diagnosis and Drug Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, 1969, 2nd ed (with R. Gittelman, F. Quitkin, and A. Rifkin) as Diagnosis and Drug Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: Adults and Children, 1980; Psychiatric Case Studies: Treatment, Drugs, and Outcome, 1972; The Physicians Handbook on Depression, 1977; (with P.H. Wender) Mind, Mood, and Medicine: A Guide to the New Biopsychiatry, 1981; (with Wender) Do You Have a Depressive Illness?, 1988; (with Wender) Understanding Depression, 1993. EDITOR: (with R. Gittelman-Klein, and contrib.) Progress in Psychiatric Drug Treatment, Vol I, 1975, Vol II, 1976; (with R.L. Spitzer, and contrib.) Evaluation of Psychological Therapies: Psychotherapies, Behavior Therapies, Drug Therapies, and Their Interactions, 1976; (with Spitzer, and contrib.) Critical Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis, 1978; (with J.G. Rabkin, and contrib.) Anxiety: New Research and Changing Concepts, 1981; (with M.R. Liebowitz, A.J. Fyer, and J.M. Gorman) Modern Problems of Pharmacopsychiatry, Vol XXII: Anxiety, 1987. Work represented in books. Contributor of articles and reviews to medical journals. Address: 1016 5th Ave Apt 14D, New York, NY 10028, U.S.A.