Greatest psychiatrists in history

[ClinPsycMasters]

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Do you happen to have a role model, a psychiatrist whose knowledge, expertise, compassion, technique, political stance, etc, is a source of inspiration to you?

In my case, and as a student of psychology, I do have a role model in Carl Rogers. His compassion inspires me. There are others too.

When it comes to psychiatry, I'll go with Karl Jaspers based on his contributions to psychiatry but also other fields like philosophy.

So I'm curious to hear your views, regarding the psychiatrists you highly respect for their contributions to the field, or ones you respect and look up to for more personal reasons.

 

[Manicsleep]

Do you happen to have a role model, a psychiatrist whose knowledge, expertise, compassion, technique, political stance, etc, is a source of inspiration to you?

A historical psychiatrist could never fill this role for me.

The greatest psychiatrist I have worked with was also luckily a mentor. Although she is relatively well known and will probably be a department chair or better one day, that is not why she is on the top of my list. Her knowledge, expertise were excellent however we had people who were better in individual areas. Her compassion and technique were excellent and she didn't really have much of a political stance except for bioethics (whereas I am very politically active).

Where she stood out was her ability to use all her skills and avail them to me in the context of being a mentor. This advice has been available to me since then and has helped me get out of some terrible jobs and into a very nice lifestyle.

 

[Doc Samson]

George Murray. His article/chapter on "Limbic Music" is pretty much everything important you need to know to be a CL psychiatrist. Everything else is just detail.

 

[ClinPsycMasters]

sounds poetic.

 

[JANESPNT]

Dr. M. Scott Peck! Incredible man. DO read "People of the Lie". He takes an incredible and daring look at the concept of human evil. Truly inspiring.

 

[VMSmith]

The guy I admitted a couple nights ago. He also owns 6 companies, is the third smartest person in the world, and has enough money to buy my house out from under me and kick me out into the street.

 

[Manicsleep]

Dr. M. Scott Peck! Incredible man. DO read "People of the Lie". He takes an incredible and daring look at the concept of human evil. Truly inspiring.

From what I briefly know of this book, it sounded like these people "of the lie" may have been strong personality traits, likely cluster B, that didn't quite make it into the disorder and were using these traits very effectively.

Not sure if I would disagree with the term evil for certain cluster B people either.

 

[nitemagi]

Milton Erickson.