Ari Kiev, M.D. psychiatrist and best-selling author
Ari Kiev was born in 1934 and passed away in late 2009.
Psychiatrist and best-selling author Ari Kiev's work ranged from the study of nontraditional psychiatry practices to helping athletes and Wall Street traders achieve peak performance.
Ari Kiev was born in Bronx and raised in Washington Heights where he attended Stuyvesant High School. Dr. Kiev graduated from Harvard in 1954 with a degree in social relations. In 1958, he earned his medical degree from Cornell Medical College. He eventually headed Cornell's departent of social psychiatry after his psychiatric training at Johns Hopkins and the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London.
