Profiles of Polish psychiatrists: Kazimierz Dabrowski part 2
Who was the Polish psychiatrist Kazimierz Dąbrowski? We invite you to read the second part of the article.
Profiles of Polish psychiatrists: Kazimierz Dąbrowski part 1
Sadness, uncertainty, suffering or feelings called "existential anxiety" - these are constructive values. To be able to experience - this is a great possibility and must not be treated as...
Erik Erikson - a new look at identity
Today is the 21st anniversary of the death of Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst and founder of the theory of psychosocial development. He made us see development as a lifelong process - not just until...
How to prevent professional burnout?
Professional burnout syndrome mainly threatens people whose work involves helping others. It can also occur in other professions, where the employee always remains a giving person in his/her...
Profiles of Polish psychiatrists - Sitting at the bedside of the sick - Kazimierz Jankowski's humanistic psychiatry - part 2
In the 1970s, Polish psychiatry was mainly associated with three names: Kępiński, Dąbrowski and precisely Jankowski. Professor Kępiński died in 1972 and Kazimierz Dąbrowski in 1980. In 1979,...
Profiles of Polish psychiatrists - Sitting at the bedside of the sick - Kazimierz Jankowski's humanistic psychiatry - part 1
In the 1970s, Polish psychiatry was mainly associated with three names: Kępiński, Dąbrowski and precisely Jankowski. Professor Kępiński died in 1972 and Kazimierz Dąbrowski in 1980. In 1979,...
Physical activity and mental health
Movement is health. Supports the proper functioning of the skeletal and muscular system. It helps maintain a healthy weight and strengthens the heart. However, it is worth remembering that physical...
XI Zachodniopomorskie Dni Psychiatryczne 2015
We would like to invite you to the 11th edition of the Zachodniopomorskie Dni Psychiatryczne conference series.
How do you look after your children's mental health?
Many parents do not know how to take care of their children's mental health. As long as the child is not in kindergarten, then in school, parents try to do their best to ensure their child's mental,...
The book "Self in early schizophrenia"
The proposed text reads very vividly - it is interesting, it draws the reader into a vortex of colourful, surprising experiences of patients, carrying a not inconsiderable charge of emotions. It...
Profiles of Polish psychiatrists - Feliks Kaczanowski: a doctor for the times
In January 1945, Feliks Kaczanowski, the pre-war head of the Tworki hospital, looked out of the window at the evacuating Germans. Tworki, like many other medical facilities, was in a deplorable...
Happy Birthday, Dad! - or the birthday of the father of modern psychiatry
Today is the birthday of Philippe Pinel, dubbed the 'father' of modern psychiatry. Although perhaps it would be more legitimate to call him the father of psychiatry in general: before his time,...
Does body language shape our personality?
Body language has a major impact on how we are perceived by others. Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist at Harvard Busuness School, shows how body language can also change the way we perceive ourselves.
Brain divided
roger Wolcott Sperry, winner of the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the lateralisation of the function of the cerebral hemispheres, died 21 years ago. His work was a true revolution for all...
The adapted robot, or towards existence
Yesterday would have been the birthday of Abraham Maslow, one of the founders of humanistic psychology. His best-known theory, the pyramid of needs, is used widely outside the field of psychology....
Aggression - definition and its causes?
We are increasingly hearing about various types of aggressive behaviour. It doesn't only affect adolescents or the elderly, but also children. Many of us do not know how to react when someone is...
The Wrocław roots of the intelligence quotient
Today marks 77 years since the death of William Stern, a German psychologist and philosopher. He is mainly associated with the concept of the intelligence quotient, but he is also the father of the...
Birthday of Viktor E.Frankl, founder of logotherapy, founder of the so-called "Third Viennese School"
Today is the 115th birthday of this prominent psychiatrist, neurologist and psychotherapist. The occasion will be marked by the opening of a museum in Vienna, Viktor Frankl's hometown, dedicated to...
Stanisław Kurkiewicz - eccentric visionary of Polish sexology
Krakow, early last century, internal medicine ward of St Lazarus hospital. A young doctor conducts a general examination of a patient. He asks about her ailments, their intensity, the circumstances...
35th anniversary of Erich Fromm's death
"We constitute a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, addicted people, who are satisfied when they manage to kill the time previously saved with so much...
Influence of age on immune deficiencies
Immunodeficiencies, also in all individuals, are defined as a variety of conditions that result from a malfunction/failure of the immune (immune) system. In general, immunodeficiencies are divided...
Headaches due to severe stress, the so-called tension headache - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
A tension headache, is one of the most common headaches, accounting for approximately 85-90% of cases. It is classified as a primary headache, where stressful situations play a special role.
