# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-khantzian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:03:46.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-khantzian"
name: "Edward Khantzian"
slug: "edward-khantzian"
description: "Edward Khantzian was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Beginning in the 1970s, he developed a progressively more coherent and empirically-grounded self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse, which states that individuals use drugs in an attempt to self-medicate states of distress and suffering."
tagline: "American psychiatrist (1935-2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1935-05-26"
deathDate: "2021-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.86
  momentum:             10.43971091669836
  historical:           5.677682666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://selfmedicationhypothesis.com/"
sources:
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    title: "ادوارد خانتزیان"
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    title: "إدوارد خانتزيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Khantzian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Khantzian"
    title: "Edward Khantzian"
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    title: "Էդվարդ Խանցյան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8F%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Ханцян, Эдвард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump