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About Myrna Weissman
- Myrna Milgram Weissman (born 1935) is Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
- She is an epidemiologist known for her research on the prevalence of psychological disorders and psychiatric epidemiology, as it pertains to rates and risks of anxiety and mood disorders across generations.
- Among her many influential works are longitudinal studies of the impact of parental depression on their children.Weissman worked with Gerald Klerman in developing interpersonal psychotherapy as a short-term treatment for depression.
- They co-authored with Bruce Rounsaville and Eva Chevron the influential volume Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Depression: A Brief, Focused, Specific Strategy.
- Extending the approach to adolescents, Weissman co-authored the book Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents, with Laura Mufson, Kristen Pollack Dorta, and Donna Moreau.
- Other books co-authored by Weissman, including The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition, offered further developments of their psychotherapeutic approach.
- Weissman and Klerman were jointly honored by the National Academy of Medicine in 1994 as recipients of the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health.
- In 1996, they jointly received the Joseph Zubin Award established by the American Psychopathological Association for seminal contributions to psychopathology research. Weissman has received numerous awards for her accomplishments including the Rema Lapouse Award for significant contributions to pediatric epidemiology in 1985, the Joseph Zubin Award for lifetime achievement from the Society for Research in Psychopathology in 1995, the Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 2001, the Gold Medal Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry in 2007, and the Thomas William Salmon Medal from the New York Academy of Medicine in 2009.
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