Name Norman Kreitman | Role Poet | |
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Books The roots of metaphor, Touching Rock, Casanova's 72nd Birthday: Poems, Against Leviathan | ||
Norman Kreitman (July 5, 1927 - December 15, 2012) was a psychiatric researcher and academic, based in Edinburgh, primarily known for coining the term parasuicide. He was also a published poet of some distinction, and wrote perceptively on the philosophy of art - in particular, on the psychology of metaphor.
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Kreitman was born in London. He received his medical training at Westminster Hospital, graduating in 1949, and worked at a tuberculosis hospital on the Isle of Wight before going into psychiatry. After training at the Maudsley hospital, he moved to Edinburgh in 1966.
In Edinburgh, he was Director of the Medical Research Council Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry.
Psychiatry
Poetry
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