Roger Granet

Roger Granet is an American psychiatrist and an author of a number of books on understanding mental disorders and diseases. Dr. Granet is a psycho-oncologist,a psychiatrist who specializes in dealing with the emotional aspects of people who have cancer.

Granet is a consulting psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University where he was named the first Teacher of the Year by the psychiatry residents and received that honor two subsequent times, a Lecturer of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Morristown Medical Center where he established the Consultation Liaison Division. He founded the Center for Psychiatry and Psycho-oncology in Morristown, New Jersey, his private practice, where his group focuses on the treatment of all patients and those with cancer, in particular . He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

He is the author and editor of numerous books and journal articles. Many of his publications have focused on the psychological aspects of medical disorders as well as psychiatric education.

With Elizabeth Ferber, he wrote "Why am I Up, Why am I Down: Understanding Bipolar Disorder." Granet is also author of “If You Think You Have Depression”and “If You Think You Have Panic Disorder.” He is the editor of The Dell Mental Health Series, a collection of 10 books directed to the lay public to inform them about specific emotional issues.

In "Surviving Cancer Emotionally: Learning How to Heal" he argues that "a patient's emotional well-being improves her quality of life" while not connecting emotional states directly to the spread of cancer. He is also the author of "Is it Alzheimers: What to do When Loved Ones Can't Remember What They Should" (1998), "Museum of Dreams," and "The World's A Small Town." Granet is also a poet with over 100 poems published in The New York Times Metropolitan Diary as well as other periodicals. Many of his poems focus on coping with cancer, which have appeared in The Journal of Cancer and Palliative Care and other medical periodicals. His book, coauthored with Robert Aquinas McNally, "If You Think You Have Panic Disorder" took Panic Disorder: A Critical Analysis (1994), McNally's original "comprehensive and lucid" and "well written" text, and adapted it for a wider audience.

Granet's medical degree is from the Rutgers University University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He obtained his undergraduate degree from New York University and completed his internship and residency at The New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.