Renato D. Alarcón, M.D., M.P.H., is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Honorio Delgado Chair at the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, and former medical director of the Mood Disorders Unit at the Mayo Psychiatry and Psychology Treatment Center, Rochester, Minnesota. He is author or editor of fourteen books, including Psychotherapy in Psychiatry: Science or Myth?, The Mosaics of Hope, Culture and Personality Disorders, and the Latin American Textbook of Psychiatry.
Published Works
The Psychotherapy of Hope
The Legacy of Persuasion and Healing
edited by Renato D. Alarcón, M.D., M.P.H., and Julia B. Frank, M.D.