Robert C. Abrams

Robert C. Abrams, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.  At Weill Cornell he maintains a clinical practice devoted to psychiatric conditions in older adult patients, and at the affiliated medical college he is engaged in research in old-age depression, psychoses and dementia, as well as elder abuse. Since 2016 Dr. Abrams has been a frequent contributor of film reviews and other essays to the Arts and Media blog of the British Medical Journal/Medical Humanities and to other leading journals of geriatrics, psychiatry and narrative medicine.   He is also the author of Staring Night: Queen Victoria’s Late-Life Depression, published by Psychoanalytic Books, Inc., New York, 2020.