President of the Social Psychiatry Research Institute since 1970, he has done significant research in the field of psychopharmacology. Dr. Kiev also was the first psychiatrist to be appointed to the U.S. Olympic Sports Medicine Committee, and he has worked with Olympic and professional athletes in peak performance coaching.

Dr. Kiev has authored more than 20 books, including the best seller Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets. This highly acclaimed book, written in collaboration with one of the country’s top hedge funds, thoroughly explains how traders, money managers and other investors can achieve maximum performance and can master the psychological problems which can cause major losses.

“The strategies in this book will unleash the hidden trader in you, and can substantially increase your trading profits,” one hedge fund manager said.

Dr. Kiev’s latest works are Mastering Trading Stress: Strategies for Maximizing Performance, to be published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in December 2007, and Hedge Fund Leadership: How to Inspire Peak Performance from Traders and Money Managers, to be published by John Wiley & Sons in March 2008.

Among his other best selling books are:
Trading in the Zone: Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline;
The Psychology of Risk: Mastering Market Uncertainty;
Hedge Fund Masters: How Top Hedge Fund Traders Set Goals, Overcome Barriers and Achieve Peak Performance;
A Strategy for Daily Living-The Classic Guide to Success and Fulfillment;
A Strategy For Handling Executive Stress; and the best selling anthropology text
Magic, Faith and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today.

Dr. Kiev is a graduate of Harvard College, Cornell Medical College and New York Law School.