About
I'm a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst and writer; I’ve co-edited two psychiatric texts, written three novels, as well as 50 short stories and articles in literary and medical journals-- JAMA, American Journal of Psychiatry, CMAJ, Intima, Queen's Quarterly, and The Healing Muse. I've worked at several university hospitals, taught residents at McGill, McMaster, University of Toronto and am a staff psychiatrist affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. Along with other doctors passionate about the link between medicine and the arts I am a founding editor of Ars Medica, a journal of medical humanities.
Currently I am working on a TV series about psychiatrists in development with Sphere Media and finishing "The Walls of Jericho" a novel about the psychology of masses and the rise and fall of civilizations.
My bio is available at https://ronruskin.com.
Featured Work
"The Walls of Jericho"
Available as a Kindle edition from Kindle or Amazon 9.99 CD.
A hard-to-shake techno-paranoid fever dream about the collapse of truth, trust, and sanity in the digital age.” —Kirkus Reviews
Dr. Leila Elfassi is the new director of the emergency psychiatry ward at Manhattan Central Hospital. But just as she takes the position, a strangely contagious mental disorder starts to shake the world. Violent rage, extreme paranoia, and sudden group-think are spreading as fast as viral internet memes, and researchers studying the cause of disorder find their work sabotaged — or even end up dead.
And then, Leila learns a terrifying truth about the plague from an anomalous archeological find in the ruins of Jericho that the scientific community refused to hear: this has happened before.
Equal parts spy, medical, and historical thriller, The Walls of Jericho is a relentless, fast-paced, and incisive look at modern technology and the human condition.
About the author
Ron Ruskin is the author of The Last Panic, The Analyst Who Laughed to Death, Confessions of a Medical Student, and The Walls of Jericho. He has co-edited a book on psychotherapy supervision Clinical Perspectives on Psychotherapy Supervision [APA Press] and Body and Soul Narratives of Healing from Ars Medica" an anthology published by University of Toronto Press. He is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and associate professor in the department of psychiatry University of Toronto. staff psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
Other Works
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Confessions of a Medical Student
2018
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The Analyst Who Laughed to Death
2016
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Body and Soul UTP
2011
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Clinical Perspectives on Psychotherapy Supervision APA
1994
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The Last Panic Bantam Books
1979
