Author


ABOUT

Robert M. Kaplan likes to write about doctors, patients and illnesses. The consequences have been dire, reducing him to long conversations with his birds Puddle & Puke.

His work have been published in:

  • Journals

  • Magazines

  • Newspapers; and

  • Op-Ed Pieces.

Robert M. Kaplan is a Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate School Of Medicine, University of Wollongong. A forensic psychiatrist, author and speaker.

BOOKS

Dark Tales of Illness, Medicine, and Madness

Published July 2019
Paperback

The Prophet of Psychiatry:
In Search of Reginald Ellery

Published Nov 2014
eBook & Paperback

The Exceptional Brain
And How it Changed The World

Published Sep 2011
Paperback

Medical
Murder

Published Jun 2009
Paperback

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • Psychiatric Gadfly: Unanswered questions about Reginald Ellery, Australia's most distinguished psychiatrist between the wars

  • Exegesis on Ezekiel: Did the most extreme prophet in the Old Testment have the Geschwind/Gastaud Syndrome?

  • Holocaust Fabrication: The case of SM, including reviews of Bruno Bettelheim, Viktor Frankl, Benjamin Wilkomirski, Donal Watt and Mark Kurzem

  • Joseph Lis, psychopath and sex slaver, the real Jack the Ripper

  • Ten years after: Shipman reconsidered

  • Memoirs from a Marginal Medical Student: fragments discovered at the Austinmer archaeological site of the long-lost and widely sought text of the mysterious hermit living there in the past reveal the tragic musings of the deeply disturbed writer, psychiatrist and necrophile who was never able to realise his ambition to produce a comic book version of Das Kapital.

PUBLICATIONS

A selection of Robert M. Kaplan's published work.

MEDIA

A selection of Robert M. Kaplan's apparences in media.