Ramani Suryakantham Durvasula is an American clinical psychologist, retired[2] professor of psychology, media expert, and author.

[5] Her books include “Don’t You Know Who I Am”: How to Stay Sane in the Era of Narcissism, Entitlement and Incivility,[6] Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship With a Narcissist,[7] and You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life,[8] as well as peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers.

In the Fall of 2010, she appeared in the Bravo series “Thintervention,” where she led group therapy sessions to help six participants find out the source of their overeating.

[5] At the American Psychological Association, she was on the Committee on Socioeconomic Status from 2014 to 2017 (serving as president in 2016),[11] and is a member of the advisory board of the Minority Fellowship Program.

[5] The National Institutes of Health has funded her research on personality disorders;[5] they approved a $1.5 million grant for her to study the link between HIV and mental illness.

On August 31, 1996, she married Charles H. Hinkin, a Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA School of Medicine.