Dr. Roy Richard Grinker
Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D. is Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University and Editor-in-chief of Anthropological Quarterly. He is an award-winning author of several books, including Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness. Dr. Grinker looks at issues involving society, mental illness and stigma, not only as a professor, but also from his personal history, since his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry include his great grandfather, a scientist who believed mental illness was a sign of biological inferiority; his grandfather, a patient of Freud; and his daughter’s experience with autism, about which he wrote UNSTRANGE MINDS: Remapping the World of Autism.
