Austin Ratner, MD

Austin Ratner is an MD and author who has written extensively about psychoanalysis in publications from The Lancet and The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association to The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Neuroscientist Mark Solms has said his book The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof "could help determine the future direction of American psychiatry and mental science." Austin's essay "Sidewalk Phantom" was in 2017 selected by The New York Times Magazine as one of their 16 all-time best Lives columns and his fiction has been celebrated as "brilliant" by The Guardian. His novel The Jump Artist won the 2011 Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and his short fiction received the 2000 Missouri Review fiction prize. He attended Johns Hopkins Medical School and chairs the Wikipedia Project for the Committee on Public Information of the American Psychoanalytic Association.