Viktor E. Frankl
Fellow American Psychiatric Association (correspondent), Royal College Psychiatrists (honorary), member National Academy Medicine (France) (foreign correspondent).
Ernst Peter Berner
Ernst Peter Berner, Czech psychiatrist, researcher. Recipient Honorary medal for liberation of Austria, President of Austria, 1978; named Officer Legion of Honor, President of France, 1978. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (correspondent), Royal College Psychiatrists (honorary); member National Academy Medicine (France) (foreign correspondent).
Background
Berner, Ernst Peter was born on November 15, 1924 in Karlsbad, Czech Republic. Son of Emil and Grete (Eisenmenger) Berner.
Career
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Assistant Psychiatric University Clinic, Vienna, 1951-1959, senior registrar, 1959-1969, deputy head, 1969-1971, professor, head, 1971-1991, professor emeritus, since 1991. Guest professor Psychiatric University Clinic, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1966-1967, University Paris V, 1986-1987. Mental health advisor United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, Switzerland, 1960-1962.
Secretary general World Psychiatric Association, Vienna, 1977-1983.
Works
- Diagnostic Criteria for Functional Psychoses
- The functional psychoses, medical diseases with no known biological causes (for example, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders), continue to be classed as illnesses of unknown origin, and the validity of diagnostic concepts therefore also depends on extrinsic criteria such as course and outcome, results of biological and genetic investigation, and response to treatment.
- Diagnostic Criteria for Functional Psychoses
- The functional psychoses, medical diseases with no known biological causes (for example, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders), continue to be classed as illnesses of unknown origin, and the validity of diagnostic concepts therefore also depends on extrinsic criteria such as course and outcome, results of biological and genetic investigation, and response to treatment.
- Das Paranoische Syndrom: Klinisch-experimentelle Untersuchungen zum Problem der fixierten Wahnbildungen (Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie) (German Edition)
- Zusehen, daB die bisherige Forschung durchaus noch nicht eindeutig die Frage beant wortet hat, was nun eigentlich "das Wesen des Wahns" sei.
Membership
Nationality
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1951
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1951 - 1959
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1969 - 1971