Peter D. Kramer

Federal judge says U.S. must give due process to deported Venezuelans Judge James Boasberg said the U.S. denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador after President Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

Why have the New York Times and Washington Post not covered Judge Boasberg's decision that the US remains responsible for the Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador and owes them due-process hearings?

www.npr.org/2025/12/22/n...

50% OFF Death of the Great Man In a novel that’s part comic mystery, part political satire, and part case vignette, a psychiatrist reviews his involvement with a narcissistic national leader who has turned up dead on the cons...

I've been remiss in not posting the new landing page for the audio book of my novel Death of the Great Man. More timely than ever... and now, at half price.

www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

[Spoiler alert]: We have seen these letters three times before, & today is the first time that two pangrams are accepted.
I wish that twitter had kept the long spelling-bee-related thread afloat—so that we could see whether contributors to it had suggested the second pangram.

Youtube has a longer version of the Big Game ad, but it's overdone and, so, less effective.

The Case Against the Trauma Plot Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?

Here's Sehgal's take on the trauma trope: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

YouTube video by Squarespace A Message From Emma Stone | Big Game Commercial 2026 | Squarespace

I doubt that @parul_sehgal is following along on X. I try to avoid it as well, but with the Super Bowl approaching, I posted there about a commercial in which skepticism of the overused trauma plot becomes a meme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxRe...

[I could have resisted PAROTIC / PAROTITIC as too medical.]

I swore to my self that I'd stop posting on this thread, but I can't resist this missing pangram: APOTROPAIC

Might it not be time for SCOTUS to publish its decision that only Congress, & not the President, can impose tariffs meant to achieve political goals?
Their delay suggests that they're out to do something complicated that helps Trump save face (and power) when they should do something clear & simple.

Five Influential Psychiatric Drugs These five pharmacological agents forever changed the course of psychiatry.

Here's the link to Mark's current essay: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/from...

In conjunction with Mark Ruffalo's new piece on influential psychiatric medications, Psychology Today has reposted my talk with him in 2021.

www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/from...

I'd be curious to hear what you make of the conversation.

I had not realized that Dennis is recovering from a stroke. Makes this conversation all the more moving.

Timeless Wisdom: Ultimate Issues Hour - Freud w/Peter D. Kramer On Today's Show: Prager explores the complex legacy of Sigmund Freud with Peter Kramer, a professor of psychiatry at Brown University. They delve into Freud's impact on modern thought, discussing his ...

Dennis Prager had just re-upped my 2007 (speak about timeless!) conversation with him about Sigmund Freud.

am870theanswer.com/podcasts/den...

Drake ‘Drake Maye’ Maye’s nickname suits him, as he is true to himself as leader of the Patriots - The Boston Globe The Patriots quarterback has showcased his leadership style this year by letting humility and gratitude lead the way.

Any chance that the "Drake Maye" nickname got its energy from the "Roy Kent" chant on Ted Lasso?

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/24/s...

He was a tough interview, perhaps steered by the PR department into taking the meeting. I had prepared extensively, re-viewing his prior films, reading published talks, researching theoretical material on comedies of remarriage, readying questions about the directing process. He did not engage.

Were in, are out: ALKANE, ALKENE

Interestingly, despite research subjects' getting much more attention from caregivers in the psychotherapy arm, SSRIs were more effective at treating and preventing depression.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Versus Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment for Suicidal Behavior in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial | American Journal of Psychiatry Objective: The authors compared the efficacy of 6 months of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to 6 months of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors with clinical management (SSRI/M) in reducing suic...

Pretty-convincing small trial finding dialectical behavior therapy more effective than SSRIs in reducing suicidality in highly vulnerable patients with borderline personality disorder.
psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Opinion | Tune Into the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Justices Will Be Squirming.

A clear test of whether the Supreme Court majority is originalist or merely political & subservient. If the Court rules against unbounded Presidential authority to impose tariffs, democracy still has a chance, despite SCOTUS's willingness to undermine it elsewhere

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Was in, is out: LATEEN

Twofer today:
Was in, is out: BELATE
Was in, is out: ABETTAL

[what else had made the cut was: LABIALIZING.]

Given what else made the cut today, BANALIZING (missing pangram) would have fit fine.

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...

Was in, is out: NOONTIDE

Apeneck Sweeney spread his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to MACULATE giraffe.

TS Eliot, Sweeny among the Nightingales

[missing pangram]

While I'm at it: If MICROCRACK was low frequency, how about ANABIOTIC?

Putting Trump on the Couch A new novel from the psychiatrist famous for "Listening to Prozac" imagines a Trumplike president’s sessions with a shrink.

www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self

While I'm at it: a link to the current—30th anniversary—edition of Listening to Prozac.

bookshop.org/p/books/list...

Do SSRIs Cause Violence? | National Review An answer from Peter Kramer.

Quick email to Ramesh Ponnuru on what we know about SSRIs and violence www.nationalreview.com/corner/do-ss...