Ramani Durvasula

Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D. (born December 30, 1965) is a licensed clinical psychologist and author. She has been sought on in various media outlets for her expertise on personality and mood disorders, including Bravo, the Lifetime Movie Network, National Geographic, and the History Channel, as well programs such as the TODAY show and Good Morning America.

Early life

Durvasula was born in Englewood, New Jersey on December 30, 1965.

Career

Vorlage:Quote box She got her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Connecticut, and her MA and Ph.D. degrees in Clinical Psychology from UCLA. She has a private practice in Santa Monica and in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. She is also Professor of Psychology at California State University, and Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg. Books she has authored include Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship With a Narcissist and You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life, as well as peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. She will release a book addressing "the intersecting zeitgeists of societal and individual narcissism and their deleterious impact on our health and well-being" in 2019.

Durvasula was the co-host of the show My Shopping Addiction on the Oxygen network, and has provided expert commentary on the TODAY show and Good Morning America. Channels such as Bravo, the Lifetime Movie Network, National Geographic, the History Channel, Discovery Science, and Investigation Discovery have also featured her. In the Fall of 2010, she starred in the Bravo series “Thintervention,” where she led group therapy sessions to help six participants find out the source of their overeating. She is co-host of the podcast Sexual Disorientation. She has been interviewed on internet media platforms as well, notably MedCircle and TONE Network. She has spoke at TEDx Sedona and South by Southwest. At the American Psychological Association, he was on the Committee on Socioeconomic Status from 2014-2017 (serving as president in 2016), and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Minority Fellowship Program. The National Institutes of Health has funded her research on personality disorders; they approved a $1.5 million grant for her to study the link between HIV and mental illness. The four-year study, that included 288 patients, determined that 92-percent of participants had experienced depression, substance use disorder or another Axis-I disorder, and that nearly half met criteria for at least one Axis-II disorder (eg. antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, or narcissistic personality disorder.

Accolades

In 2003, Durvasula received the “Emerging Scholar” Award from the American Association of University Women and the “Distinguished Woman” Award from the CSULA.California State University was named Outstanding Professor of the year in 2012.

Personal life

Durvasula resides in Los Angeles with her partner, Bill Pruitt. She has two daughters, Maya and Shanti.

Filmography

• Thintervention (2010) – starred

Bibliography

Papers

• Marta Robinet, Mona N. Lam, Steven A. Castellon, Andrew J. Levine, David J. Hardy, Charles H. Hinkin, Ramani S. Durvasula, Karen I. Mason, Robert Schug: ANPA ABSTRACTS. In: The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 16. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, Mai 2004, S. 218–241, doi:10.1176/jnp.16.2.218 (psychiatryonline.org). 
• R Durvasula: HIV/AIDS in older women: unique challenges, unmet needs. In: Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.). 40. Jahrgang, Nr. 3, 2014, S. 85–98, doi:10.1080/08964289.2014.893983, PMID 25090361 (nih.gov [abgerufen am 4. Januar 2019]). 
• Arinder K. Arora, Kendra N. Pesko, Verónica Quintero-Hernández, Lourival D. Possani, Thomas A. Miller, Ravi V. Durvasula: A paratransgenic strategy to block transmission of Xylella fastidiosa from the glassy-winged sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis. In: BMC Biotechnology. 18. Jahrgang, Nr. 1, 22. August 2018, doi:10.1186/s12896-018-0460-z. 
• Nayan Arora, Raghu Durvasula: Recurrent Polyuria. In: American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 72. Jahrgang, Nr. 5, November 2018, S. A17–A19, doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2018.07.006. 
• Adinarayana Kunamneni, Chunyan Ye, Steven B. Bradfute, Ravi Durvasula, Ellen R. Goldman: Ribosome display for the rapid generation of high-affinity Zika-neutralizing single-chain antibodies. In: PLOS ONE. 13. Jahrgang, Nr. 11, 16. November 2018, S. e0205743, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205743. 
• Whelton A. Miller, Joshua Teye, Angela O. Achieng, Reagan M. Mogire, Hoseah Akala, John M. Ong`cha, Brijesh Rathi, Ravi Durvasula, Prakasha Kempaiah, Samuel K. Kwofie: Antimalarials: Review Of Plasmepsins As Drug Targets And Hiv Protease Inhibitors Interactions. In: Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 19. Jahrgang, 30. November 2018, doi:10.2174/1568026619666181130133548. 

Books

• "You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life (January 1, 2013)
• Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving A Relationship with a Narcissist (October 24, 2017)
• Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are (October 31, 2017) – Hillary L. McBride and Ph.D. Ramani Durvasula
• Don’t You Know Who I Am: Staying Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement and Incivility (2019)

External links

• A Guide to Better Relationships, essays at Psychology Today