- G. E. Berrios
German E. Berrios is a
Professor ofPsychiatry (emeritus) atCambridge University in the UK.He was born in
Tacna (Perú ) and studiedmedicine andphilosophy at theUniversity of San Marcos (Lima , Perú). Subsequently, he readpsychology andphilosophy at Corpus Christi College,Oxford University , where he was a scholar by examination. He did postgraduate work in thehistory andphilosophy of science at the same university underCharles Webster (medical historian),Alistair Crombie (historian of science), andRom Harré (philosopher of science; and trained inneurology andpsychiatry at the (then) Oxford United Hospitals.Between 1973 and 1976 he was a Lecturer in Psychiatry at the
University of Leeds where he trained inmedical statistics underProfessor Max Hamilton and receiveddidactic analysis fromHarry Guntrip .Since 1977, he has taught at
Cambridge University , UK (Departments of Psychiatry and of History and Philosophy of Science) where he currently holds the Chair of theEpistemology of Psychiatry and is aConsultant Neuropsychiatrist atAddenbrooke's Hospital (Cambridge, UK). He is a Life Fellow ofRobinson College , and Fellow of theRoyal College of Psychiatrists of the UK, theBritish Psychological Society , and theAcademy of Medical Sciences . In 1989, he founded (with the lateRoy Porter ) the international journal "History of Psychiatry" [http://hpy.sagepub.com/ http://hpy.sagepub.com/] ] of which he remains the editor.Married to Doris Alvarado Contreras (
Nazca , Perú, 1942); they have had 4 children: German Arnaldo (deceased), Francisco Javier (deceased), Claudio Fabricio (Business Analyst ) and Ruben Ernesto (Philosopher ).His research has centred around the psychiatric complications of
neurological disease [http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?berrios] and the history, structure and epistemological power of descriptivepsychopathology . Berrios G.E. (1996) "The History of Mental Symptoms". Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.] His ideas have been developed further by graduates from countries as far apart as Australia, Japan, Brazil, India, Chile, Colombia, China, Italy, and Spain who once attended the "Cambridge School of Psychopathology". [http://www.dinarte.es/salud-mental/neu074/074deba3.pdf http://www.dinarte.es/salud-mental/neu074/074deba3.pdf] ] He is also interested in the ethics of research and for the last 18 years has been Chairman of the Cambridge Research Ethics Committee. He has been visiting professor at Universities in Hong Kong, Barcelona, Lima, Heidelberg, Jerusalem, Cornell, Adelaide, Chile, Mexico, Medellin, etc.He has published 14 books and more than 400 papers on the clinical, historical and philosophical aspects of neuropsychiatry, [http://www.deficitdeatencionperu.org/berrios.htm http://www.deficitdeatencionperu.org/berrios.htm] ] mental symptoms, and descriptive psychopathology. He holds degrees "honoris causa" from the
University of Heidelberg (Germany) and theUniversity of San Marcos (Perú). In 2006, a Chair in Descriptive Psychopathology carrying his name was established at theUniversity of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia). On 15 November 2007 he was awarded theOrder of the Sun (Class: Grand Officer) by the Peruvian Government.References
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