Peter C. Whybrow

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Peter C. Whybrow (* 1939 ) is an American professor of psychiatry and biologically based behavioral science.

Become

He was the chairman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Psychiatry and is the director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles , renamed the Jane and Terry Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior in 2005 . In 2005 Whybrow published the bestseller "American Mania: When More Is Not Enough," in which he analyzed the neurotic greed in the American population. In Germany, the book was published in 2007 by Vedra Verlag under the title " When more is not enough - Analysis of a greedy society ".

Works (selection)

  • Hibernation. Why we feel listless, unbalanced and too fat in the gray season and what we can do about it. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3499191318
  • Psychosomatic Medicine. Current Trends and Clinical Applications . Oxford University Press, New York 1977
  • When more is not enough. Analysis of a greedy society . Vedra Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 3939356182

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personal data
SURNAME Whybrow, Peter C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist, university professor, and biologically based behavioral scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939