A psychiatrist, lawyer, and popular author, Dr. Ari Kiev specialized in suicide prevention, antidepressant medication investigation, and the psychology of world-class athletes and Wall Street traders. Dr. Ari Nissan Kiev was born December 30, 1933 in the Bronx, the son of Rabbi I. Edward Kiev. Kiev received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1954 and his medical degree from Cornell University Medical School in 1958, then completed a residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was the founder and director of the Social Psychiatry Research Institute, which specializes in conducting clinical trials of new prescription drugs. In addition to his work with SPRI, Kiev maintained a private clinical practice, testified as an expert witness in suicide and psychopharmacology cases, and developed the Life Strategy Workshops seminars, tapes of which are available in the collection. Kiev became interested in the psychology of athletic performance in the 1970s, and began working with Olympic athletes on managing stress, eventually as part of the U.S. Olympic Committee's sports medicine committee. His work with top athletes caught the interest of hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors, and Kiev began working with Wall Street traders in 1992, a practice that led to several books on mastering stress in the Wall Street environment. Kiev was the author or editor of a number of books in psychology and psychiatry, including The Mental Strategies of Top Traders, Hedge Fund Leadership, Hedge Fund Masters, The Psychology of Risk, Trading in the Zone, Trading to Win, A Strategy for Daily Living, Breaking Free of Birth Order, How to Keep Love Alive, The Courage to Live, Recovery from Depression, Magic, Faith, and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today, and Psychiatry in the Communist World.
From the description of Ari Kiev papers, 1965-2005, bulk 1965-2005. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 665611224
