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Jules Angst (born December 11, 1926 in Zurich ) is a Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

Angst grew up in Zurich and started his scientific career there. He received his doctorate in 1953 and completed his habilitation in 1966. From 1969 to 1994 he was Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Zurich and Director of the Research Department of the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich . Since 1994 he has been honorary professor at the University of Zurich.

His scientific work includes six monographs and numerous scientific articles.

He has received numerous international prizes and awards for his scientific work:

Anna Monika Prize (1966/1967)
Paul Martini Prize (1969)
Otto Naegeli Prize (1983)
Eric Stromgren Medal (1987)
Honorary doctorate from Heidelberg University (1988)
Golden Kraepelin Medal (1992)
Selo Prize USA (1994)
Mogens Schou Prize for Research into Bipolar Diseases , USA (2001)
Burghölzli Prize for Social Psychology (2001)
International Society of Psychiatric Genetics Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2002)
Honorary member of the German Society for Bipolar Disorders (2004)
Wagner-Jauregg Medal (2007)
Premio Juan José López-Ibor (2010)
WFSBP Lifetime Achievement Award in Biological Psychiatry ("World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry", 2011)

On the etiology and nosology of endogenous depressive psychoses. A genetic, sociological and clinical study. Springer, Berlin 1966 (habilitation thesis, University of Zurich).
Somatic therapy of schizophrenia. Thieme, Stuttgart 1969.

The best-known Swiss psychiatrist is still doing research every day at 84. In: Tages-Anzeiger . June 7, 2011.