Fr Juozapas Žiogas: Archaeologist and Priest

Psychology and the Parish Priest

Canon Dewar's book is very timely. At the International Congress on Mental Health, held in August, 1948, in London, emphasis was frequently laid on the fact that the parson was a member of the mental health team. The antipathy between the exponent of the young and growing science of human behaviour and authoritarian religion, has prevented the co-operation which would be of mutual benefit to bo...

Occupational health and the archaeologist.

The psychiatrist as archaeologist and architect

A colleague and I recently proposed a model to guide the description and reform of mental health services and to clarify service evaluation (Tansella & Thornicroft, 1998). The model, which we call the ‘mental health matrix’, consists of two dimensions, one temporal and one geographical. The temporal dimension comprises three phases: input (phase A), process (phase B) and outcome (phase C). The ...

The priest doctors.

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(2) Priest doctors As the stream of monks left their foundations at the dissolution of the monasteries in the mid-16th century, the society that surrounded them was profoundly affected. While some fought dramatically against closure – even losing their lives – the vast majority of monks went quietly, with pensions, into the sunset. No matter how we...

The Priest and the Sick in Mind

The author of this book?her first to be translated?is a Dutch psychiatrist. She has set out to relate her clinical experience to a framework of the psychology of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and to redress the balance of Freud's studies on sick people by an appeal to closer observation of those who are well. A detailed study of this, in her other works (to be translated) will be awaited wi...