Keefe, Richard S.E. 1958–

(Richard Stanley Edward Keefe)

PERSONAL: Born July 24, 1958, in Darby, PA; son of John A. (a stockbroker) and Elsye (an employment director; maiden name, Crego) Keefe; married Caren Margaret Gadigian (a financial manager), June 19, 1993; children: Austin David. Education: Princeton University, B.A., 1980; New York University, Ph.D., 1990.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center 3270, Durham, NC 27710. Agent—Faith Hornby Hamlin, Sanford J. Greenburger and Associates, Inc., 55 5th Ave., 15th Fl., New York, NY 10003. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Psychologist, educator, and writer. Schizophrenia Biological Research Center, New York, NY, research coordinator, 1983–85, assistant research psychologist, 1985–89; Yale University, New Haven, CT, clinical psychology intern at Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1990, visiting scientist at Kidd Laboratory, 1990–92; Kraepelinian Schizophrenia Research Project, New York, NY, director of Neurocognitive Laboratories, 1990–95; Duke University, Durham, NC, assistant professor of psychiatry, 1995–. Beth Israel Medical Center, neuropsychology extern, 1987–88; Elmhurst Hospital, director of Diagnostic Assessment Service, 1990–95. Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, assistant professor, 1990–95; University of Utrecht, lecturer, 1994; guest on television and radio programs.

MEMBER: American Psychological Association, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Society of Research in Psychopathology, Society of Social Biology, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

AWARDS, HONORS: Young Investigator Awards from National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, 1991, 1995, and International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, 1991; Young Scientist Awards from Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia Research, 1992, 1994; grants from National Institute of Mental Health, 1990–95, 1995–2000, and National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and the Depressions, 1991–93, 1995–97.

WRITINGS:

(With P.D. Harvey) Understanding Schizophrenia: A Guide to the New Research on Causes and Treatment, Free Press (New York, NY), 1994.

(Editor, with Joseph P. McEvoy) Assessment of Negative Symptom and Cognitive Deficit Treatment Response in Schizophrenia, American Psychiatric Press (Washington, DC), 2000.

On the Sweet Spot: Stalking the Effortless Present, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to books, including Insight and Psychosis, edited by X.F. Amador and A. David, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1995; and Schizophrenia, edited by S.R. Hirsch and D.R. Weinberger, Blackwell University Press (Oxford, England), 1995. Contributor of articles and reviews to professional journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Coeditor, Social Biology, 1991.

SIDELIGHTS: Richard S.E. Keefe is a clinical psychologist whose interests include sports psychology, performance enhancement, cognitive assessment, and psychotherapy. He is coeditor with Joseph P. McEvoy of Assessment of Negative Symptom and Cognitive Deficit Treatment Response in Schizophrenia. The volume presents papers by a number "of the leading researchers in the field of negative symptoms and cognitive impairments," as noted by American Journal of Psychiatry contributor Marc-Andre Roy. Roy went on to note that the "book provides a thorough overview on the research regarding the treatment of negative symptoms."

In On the Sweet Spot: Stalking the Effortless Present, Keefe uses his expertise in brain research to write about the relationship between the brain and athletic performance as he discusses both psychological and physiological factors in performance in golf and other sports. In addition to discussing meditation and other brain techniques for improving a person's game, the author delves into his own various avenues of brain research conducted at Duke University and his relationship with a mentor physician who is dying of cancer. "This book is very well written," noted William O. Scheeren in the Library Journal.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Journal of Psychiatry, April, 2002, Marc-Andre Roy, review of Assessment of Negative Symptom and Cognitive Deficit Treatment Response in Schizophrenia, p. 683.

Choice, November, 1994, J.A. Mather, review of Understanding Schizophrenia: A Guide to the New Research on Causes and Treatment, p. 539.

Library Journal, April 1, 2003, William O. Scheeren, review of On the Sweet Spot: Stalking the Effort-less Present, p. 106.

Publishers Weekly, February 3, 2003, review of On the Sweet Spot, p. 70.