Antoni Kępiński

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Antoni Kępiński (b. November 16, 1918 in Dolyna - June 8, 1972 in Kraków) was a Polish psychiatrist.

Educated in Kraków where he attended one of the best Grammar Schools - The Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School. In 1936 he entered the Medical Faculty of the Jagiellonian University. The beginning of World War II in 1939 interrupted his studies before graduation. Kępiński volunteered for the Polish Army to defend his country from the German invasion. Then he was interned in Hungary where he fled with some of Polish troops after Poland had been invaded by German armies. In 1940 he managed to escape internment and headed to France and then Spain where he had been detained and put into the prisoners camp of Miranda del Ebro.

Later he was freed and came to Britain, for a short time with the Polish aircraft division but in 1944-1945 he continued his medical studies in Edinburgh graduating in 1946. Soon he returned to Poland and took up psychiatry at the Psychiatric Clinic of Collegium Medicum in Cracow.

As a concentration camp inmate himself he took part in a rehabilitation programme for survivors from the Auschwitz concentration camp. His medical career was really outstanding and apart from that he became one of the best Polish researchers in the field of psychiatry. His theories of information metabolism and axiological psychiatry are quite well known and his scientific work covers over 140 publications and several books.

His books:

• Psychopatologia nerwic (Psychopathology of Neuroses)
• Schizofrenia (Schizophrenia)
• Melancholia (Melancholy)
• Psychopatie (Psychopathologies)
• Lęk (Fear)
• Podstawowe zagadnienia współczesnej psychiatrii (The Basic Concepts of Contemporary Psychiatry)
• Poznanie chorego (Understanding the Patient)
• Rytm życia (The Rhythm of Life)

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