Heritage of Antoni Kępiński

Antoni Kępiński (1918-1972), pioneer of post-traumatic stress disorder - psychiatry in history.

Antoni Ignacy Tadeusz Kępiński was born on 16 November 1918 in Dolyna (Ukraine). He studied human medicine at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, but took a break from his studies in 1939 to enlist as a volunteer in the Polish Army. In 1940 he was imprisoned in a concentration camp. After his liberation in 1945 Kępiński continued his studies in Edinburgh, and after obtaining a PhD in...

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From psychopathology of Übermensch

Antoni Kępiński Maria Orwid: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; The Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Kraków, Poland; Correspondence address: Maria Orwid, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Kraków, Poland, 21a Kopernika St., 31–501 Kraków, Poland; E-mail: [email protected]; The Paper was first published in Przeg...

Post-War Research on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Part I. Research before 1989.

The paper presents the post-war history of post-traumatic research conducted at the Department of Psychiatry of the Jagiellonian University and the analysis of the main research approaches and selected publications. The time after World War II passed in Poland in two directions: coping with the finished war trauma and simultaneously the experience of communist persecution trauma. First scientif...

Developing a Conceptual Framework of Integrity in Urban Heritage Conservation

The concept of integrity, as a factor of sustaining values and significance of cultural heritage, is considered to be a key element in the process of urban heritage conservation. Review and analysis of documents, conventions and theories concerning the role of integrity in urban heritage conservation shows that in recent decades, the concept of integrity has attracted attention worldwide in the...