Antoni Kępiński

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Antoni Kępiński

Antoni Kępiński (German: Antoni Kepinski) (born November 16, 1918 in Dolyna near Stanislau , today Ukraine , † June 8, 1972 in Krakow ) was a Polish psychiatrist .

Life

In Cracow he attended one of the best high schools and from 1936 studied medicine at the Jagiellonian University . After the outbreak of World War II , he volunteered. After the Polish defeat, he crossed the border into Hungary . He escaped from the detention center and reached 1940 via France to Spain . There he was picked up by the fascist authorities and imprisoned in the Miranda del Ebro concentration camp . After his release he went to England, where he joined the Polish Air Force in the west . 1944/1945 he continued his medical studies in Edinburgh . In 1947 he returned to Poland to work as a psychiatrist at the Jagiellonian University clinic. Shortly before his death he was appointed professor.

Act

In his work, Kępiński criticized both mystical views and Jung's type theory and developed his own typology. In his book “Psychopathology of Neuroses” he introduced a concept of “ informational metabolism ” in order to explain the principles of stable human relationships. The theory understands humans as a system that exchanges information with its environment by receiving, processing and sending it according to a specific program. Kępiński also worked in Kraków with Stanisław Kłodziński on survivor syndrome .

Fonts (selection)

  • Psychopatologia nerwic (psychopathology of neuroses)
  • Lęk (fear)
  • Rytm życia (rhythm of life)
  • Psychopathia
  • Schizofrenia (schizophrenia)
  • Melancholia (melancholy)
  • Podstawowe zagadnienia współczesnej psychiatrii (basic questions of today's psychiatry)
  • Poznanie chorego (Getting to know the sick person )
  • Psychopatologia życia codziennego (Psychopathology of everyday life)
  • Z psychopatologii życia seksualnego (On the psychopathology of sexual life)
  • The so-called “concentration camp syndrome”, attempt at a synthesis , in: Auschwitz-Hefte, Weinheim 1987
personal data
SURNAME Kępiński, Antoni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Dolyna , Stanislau , today Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1972
Place of death Kraków , Poland