Silvano Arieti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Silvano Arieti

American-Italian psychiatrist

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1981

Profession: psychiatrist

Nationality: United States, Italy

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Silvano Arieti

  • Silvano Arieti (June 28, 1914 in Pisa, Italy – August 7, 1981 in New York City) was a psychiatrist regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on schizophrenia.
  • He received his M.D.
  • from the University of Pisa and left Italy soon after, due to the increasingly anti-Semitic racial policies of Benito Mussolini. Arieti was professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College.
  • 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 the 1975 National Book Award in Science.
  • His The Will to be Human won the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion category.
  • Arieti undertook psychotherapy of schizophrenic patients, an unusual approach that few of his colleagues chose to pursue.
  • The book was considered in his time as a major revision of concept of schizophrenia after Kraeplin and Bleuler.
  • The views he expressed in Interpretation of Schizophrenia are now professionally called the trauma model of mental disorders and constitute one alternative to the mainstream medical model of mental disorders.
  • Childhood anxieties and psychological experiences by the child were considered as primary causes of later-age development of schizophrenia.
  • He advanced the ideas from psychodynamic school, and his contributions became the foundations of much of the later work in psychotherapy of schizophrenia.

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