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Pavlos Sakkas
Pavlos Sakkas grew up in the milieu of psychiatry as his father was also a psychiatrist. Pavlos has practiced Psychiatry at the front line for the last thirty years and is a Profes...view morePavlos Sakkas grew up in the milieu of psychiatry as his father was also a psychiatrist. Pavlos has practiced Psychiatry at the front line for the last thirty years and is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School of the University of Athens. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has obtained prestigious scholarships and has accomplished substantial works in research, with hundreds of publications in international scientific journals.
However, despite these great professional achievements, his greatest fondness is for teaching. He has spent his long academic career initiating thousands of medical students and hundreds of specialised psychiatrists into the world of psychiatry. Furthermore, featuring in the media on numerous occasions, he tries to familiarise the general public with the messages of modern Psychiatry and the significant developments achieved in recent decades.
Pavlos Sakkas’ inquisitive spirit has formulated fresh and enterprising points of view concerning certain aspects – that are still obscure – of psychiatry. In his clinical work, which has been met with high esteem, he has meanwhile applied special personal techniques of approach to a patient. It is these views and employed technique that are set out in his present book, which represents the distillation of his knowledge and experience.view less