{"id":1046,"date":"2014-10-09T21:09:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normandoidge.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1046"},"modified":"2022-02-02T05:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T05:24:23","slug":"sample-page-2-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/normandoidge.com\/?page_id=1046","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t
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\nNorman Doidge, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. For thirty years he was on faculty at the University of Toronto\u2019s Department of Psychiatry, and Research Faculty at\u00a0 Columbia University\u2019s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, in New York. Currently, he is a Training and Supervising Analyst (a trainer of psychoanalysts) at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of two New York Times Bestsellers. He lives in Toronto.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t

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Education<\/h2>\n

After winning the E.J. Pratt Prize for Poetry at age 19, Doidge won early recognition from the literary critic Northrop Frye, who wrote that his work was \u201creally remarkable… haunting and memorable.\u201d At the University of Toronto, he studied classics and philosophy, and graduated with high distinction, then earned his medical degree. In New York, he simultaneously completed psychiatric and psychoanalytic training at the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, followed by two years as a Columbia-National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow, studying research techniques, and another year as a Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at Columbia.<\/p>\n

Early writing accomplishments<\/h2>\n

In 1994, Doidge won The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\/Saturday Night Literary Award, the most important award for an unpublished work in Canada, for his personal memoir, \u201cThe Suit.\u201d He became editor-in-chief of Books in Canada\u2014The Canadian Review of Books from 1995 to 1998 and, from 1998 to 2001, a\u00a0 columnist, writing \u201cOn Human Nature\u201d in the National Post. His series of literary portraits of exceptional people at moments of transformation appeared in Saturday Night magazine and won four Canadian National Magazine Gold Awards, including the National Magazine Award President\u2019s Medal, for the best article published in Canada in the year 2000. That account of his intimate conversation with the Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, called \u201cLove, Friendship and the Art of Dying,\u201d was \u201cbrilliantly sustained from beginning to end,\u201d said the judges, who continued, \u201cThis multi-leveled piece about writing, friendship, life and death opens a door into the complex lives of two extraordinary literary figures.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was out of these kinds of portraits\u2014and Doidge\u2019s conviction that neuroplasticity represents the single most important change in our understanding of the human brain in hundreds of years, with immense consequences for our understanding of human nature, human and therapeutic possibilities, and human culture\u2014 that The Brain That Changes Itself emerged.<\/p>\n

Clinical, teaching and research experience<\/h2>\n

Dr. Doidge \u00a0served as Head of the Psychotherapy Centre and the Assessment Clinic at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and also taught in the departments of Philosophy, Political Science, Law and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Along with his work on neuroplasticity and the brain he\u00a0\u00a0has published and taught on trauma, problems in love, eating disorders, learning disorders, psychiatric diagnoses and the efficacy of intensive psychotherapies, and is the author of chapters on research based standards and guidelines for the practice of intensive psychotherapy that have been\u00a0used in Canada. He was on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a peer reviewer for The Harvard Review of Psychiatry,<\/p>\n

In 1993 he presented his early research at the White House in Washington, D.C., and is credited with helping preserve these treatments as part of the Canadian and Australian health care systems.<\/p>\n

He has done volunteer work in Ethiopia, teaching psychiatry and lecturing \u00a0at Addis Ababa, University, Department of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n

Clinical and scientific awards and science book awards<\/h2>\n

1988,\u00a0 U.S. National Psychiatric Endowment Award in Psychiatry<\/p>\n

1998, election to Membership of the American College of Psychoanalysts\u00a0 for he \u201cmany outstanding achievements in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.\u201d<\/p>\n

1998, American Psychoanalytic Association\u2019s CORST Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture<\/p>\n

1999, Canadian Psychoanalytic Association\u2019s M. Prados Prize.<\/p>\n

2007, The Brain that Changes Itself<\/em> won best book of the year awards from The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, National Post, \u00a0Slate, Amazon.com (Top Ten Science Category) Amazon.ca (Best Books of the Year Category) among others. It was a Scientific American Main selection.<\/p>\n

2008,\u00a0 Mary S. Sigourney Prize, the highest award in international psychoanalysis<\/p>\n

2008, The Brain that Changes Itself <\/em>wins The\u00a0National Association of Mental Illness Ken Book Award,\u00a0“for an \u201coutstanding literary work contributing to better understanding of mental illness as a neurobiological disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

2010,\u00a0U.S. Dana Brain Foundation’s journal Cerebrum editors and readers chose The Brain that Changes Itself f<\/em>rom among 30,000 books written on the brain, as “the best general book on the brain.”<\/p>\n

2015, The Brain’s Way of Healing<\/em> won the Gold Nautilus Award in Science<\/p>\n

2015\u00a0 Recipient of the Special Recognition Award from Brain Injury Canada for his “extraordinary, heroic contribution to advance the cause of acquired brain injury in Canada.”<\/p>\n

2015, Chosen by Business Insider one of 50 Groundbreaking Scientists Changing the Way We See the World<\/p>\n

2016, The Brain That Changes Itself<\/em> chosen as one of the 25 most influential books in Canada in the last 25 years, by the Literary Review of Canada.<\/p>\n

2017, Sudbury Medal for Leadership in Mental Health, and the Dan Andrea Distinguished Presidential Lecturer, Laurentian University<\/p>\n

Scientific and popular writing<\/h2>\n

Norman Doidge has been described by The Globe and Mail, as \u201ca master at explaining science to the rest of us.\u201d He has written over 170 articles, both scientific and popular. His writing has appeared in scientific journals such as the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Comprehensive Psychiatry. His almost thirty years of science and literary journalism has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Arts & Letters Daily, U.S. News and World Report, \u00a0the back-page essay for Time Magazine, Reader\u2019s Digest, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, L\u2019Unita, Hungarian Review, UPI, Saturday Night, National Post, The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Books in Canada, Gravitas, The Medical Post, The Melbourne Age, The Australian, Australian Financial Review and Tablet Magazine (where he is a contributing writer. His work has frequently been anthologized in college texts as examples of how to write well.<\/p>\n

Writing about Dr. Doidge<\/h2>\n

He and his work have been profiled and cited in, among others, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, Scientific American Mind, Melbourne Age, The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Der Spiegel, \u00a0Psychology Today, O The Oprah Magazine, \u00a0Association for Advancement of Retired People, Rotman School of Management: The Magazine, Vogue, Ability Magazine, \u00a0Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and the National Post among others.<\/p>\n

Television radio and film<\/h2>\n

The PBS special, The Brain Fitness Program, which featured him, and his book, became the most successful TV fundraising drive in PBS\u2019s history, and was aired over 10,000 times. He has been a guest to discuss the brain and human nature on BBC World News TV, BBC TV, PBS, CBS, CNN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, SBS, CBC, CTV, Global, and TVO, which has devoted four television shows to his \u00a0work: The Agenda with Steve Paiken, Allen Gregg in Conversation, and Big Ideas, and another Agenda on The Brain’s Way of Healing. \u00a0He has appeared on hundreds of radio programs including NPR, BBC Radio, CBC, ABC, and Public Radio International. A film of The Brain That Changes Itself, co-written by Norman Doidge and Mike Sheerin, appeared on Canada\u2019s most watched science program, The Nature of Things With David Suzuki, and in Europe and Australia. The former film won the 2009 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival Jury Award, the second highest award for a film at the festival, and was nominated for the the Best Science\/Medical Documentary at the Yorktown Sheaf Film Festival. It was followed by a second film, \u201cChanging Your Mind.\u201d He has twice hosted \u201cMysteries of the Mind\u201d 25 hours of television on the brain, for TVO Ontario.
\n(link: http:\/\/about.tvo.org\/blog\/news-releases-and-announcements\/mysteries-mind-week-returns-tvo-january-20-25)<\/p>\n

The documentary film of The Brain’s Way of Healing the third film on his work premiered in Canada on the CBC’s Nature of Things, October 27, at 8:00 pm: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/natureofthings\/episodes\/the-brains-way-of-healing<\/a><\/p>\n

Public Speaking<\/h2>\n

Dr. Doidge is a frequent keynote lecturer in North America, Europe and Australia. He has lectured at major universities including conferences sponsored by Harvard, MIT, Yale, and in Princeton, New Jersey. He has presented his research at the United Nations, the White House, Washington D.C., London School of Economics, Royal Society of Arts London, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin, The East West Pain Conference Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University, Beijing, Goethe University, Frankfurt Germany, the Genoa Science Festival, McLuhan Galaxy Celebration, Universita La Splenza, Roma, Italy, among others. He has lectured throughout Europe, Australia, South Africa, the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t

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\"Winner of the 2008 U.S. National Alliance on Mental Illness Ken Book Award, \"for an outstanding literary contribution toward a better understanding of mental illness.\" \"<\/p>− <\/span><\/blockquote>

\"New York Times Bestseller 2008
\n9 months on the New York Times internet list 2008
\n#1 Bestseller for Australian Independents
\n#1 Non-fiction Bestseller in Canada
\nScientific American Main Selection\"<\/p>− <\/span><\/blockquote>

\"CHOSEN BY THE DANA FOUNDATION FOR THE BRAIN AS #! BEST GENERAL BOOK ON THE BRAIN EVER WRITTEN FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC\"<\/p>− <\/span><\/blockquote>

\"CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR\"<\/p>− amazon.com editors, amazon.com readers<\/span><\/blockquote>

\"Amazon.ca, slate magazine (online U.S. internet magazine),
\nThe Guardian (UK), The Globe and Mail (Canada), National Post (Canada), one of ChaptersIndigo top ten books of the year (#3)<\/p>\n

Mary S. Sigourney Prize, Awarded to Dr. Doidge, the highest award in international psychoanalysis, 2008<\/p>\n

Nomination for Best audiobook for Self-improvement\"<\/p>− CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR<\/span><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1046","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normandoidge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normandoidge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normandoidge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normandoidge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normandoidge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/normandoidge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normandoidge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}