- Silvano Arieti
Silvano Arieti (born in
Pisa ,Italy onJune 28 ,1914 and died inNew York onAugust 7 ,1981 ) was apsychiatrist regarded in his time as one of the world’s foremost authorities onschizophrenia . He received his M.D. from theUniversity of Pisa but left Italy soon after because ofMussolini 's increasinglyfascist racial policies. He found refuge in the United States.Arieti was professor of psychiatry at New York Medical School. He was also training analyst in the Division of Psychoanalysis at the
William Alanson White Institute , and editor of the six-volume "American handbook of Psychiatry". His "Interpretation of Schizophrenia " won theNational Book Award in 1975.Arieti undertook psychotherapy of schizophrenic patients, an unusual approach that few of his colleagues chose to pursue. His views in "Interpretation of Schizophrenia", presently called the
trauma model of mental disorders in the profession, represent the counter-hypothesis to the mainstream medical model of mental disorders.ee also
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Interpretation of Schizophrenia External links
* [http://www.associazionesilvanoarieti.org/english/sa_curriculum.html] - Italian and English bilingual web page about Silvano Arieti
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18529 Silvano Arieti's biographic sketch] atFind A Grave
* [http://www.latephilosophers.com/schizo2.html Schizo's Web] by Harrison Mujica-Jenkins at [http://www.latephilosophers.com latephilosophers.com]
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