Osheroff

My fellow laureate, Doug Osheroff, is a prime example of

David M. Lee - Autobiography 1997

In 1988, after teaching my first large lecture course, one student wrote in his course evaluation: "Osheroff is a typical example of some lunkhead from industry who Stanford University hires for his expertise in some random field."

Douglas D. Osheroff - Autobiography 1997

OK, Flash ... so how about considering Dr. Douglas Osheroff for NASA admin?

Gration's Chances Fade Away - NASA Watch 2009

According to Edwin Shorter, “The case left the strong impression that treating major psychiatric illnesses with psychoanalysis alone constituted malpractice…Any clinician who henceforth treated patients as Chestnut Lodge had Dr. Osheroff ran the risk of incurring heavy penalties.”

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

In 1979, Rafael Osheroff, a forty-two-year-old doctor was admitted to the lodge, complaining of anxiety and depression.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

As Gerald Klerman, writing in 1990 about the Osheroff case, put it:

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

By then, however, Osheroff had been in the hospital for nearly a year and his life was in ruins.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

In 1982 he sued Chestnut Lodge, claiming that their failure to put Osheroff on drugs was negligence.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

The moral of the Osheroff story, Klerman said, was that it was time to require of psychotherapies what Kefauver-Harris had required of drugs: proof that they worked.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

Osheroff was a vocal opponent of the war in Vietnam, and continued his activism up until the end of his life at the age of 92, speaking out against the Iraq

An inspirational political life captured on film 2009