Draft Wikipedia article: Harold Merskey was born February 11, 1929 in England, United Kingdom. Since his completion of his doctoral thesis on the concept of pain[1] for which he received the doctorate in medicine (DM) at Oxford University, UK, in 1965, he had been a medical scientist with a primary focus on psychiatry. Most of his work was carried out in his position as a professor of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, since 1977. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Pain Research and Management, and has published several psychiatric books, more than 460 scientific articles in medical journals, and chapters in books (see the PubMed, Google Scholar, and Research Gate websites). He is well known for his research on pain, numerous topics in pharmacology, schizophrenia (e.g., as a part of Landmark's project, see references listed in Cernovsky, Merskey, Litman, and Helmes[2]), dementia [3], and for his outspoken pioneering criticism of the outdated concept of hysteria[4], and of the misleading concepts of multiple personality (also now known as the Dissociative Identity Disorder[5]). He promoted the use of the concept of false memory syndrome as a scientific replacement for the speculative construct of “recovered memories[6].” He has retired in 2014.
Merskey H. (1964). An Investigation of Pain in Psychological Illness. DM Thesis, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Cernovsky Z, Merskey H, Litman L, Helmes E. Landmark's Model for Computerized Studies of Schizophrenia: A Review. Archives of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. 2019; 2(1):1-9.
Merskey H. et al. Correlative studies in Alzheimer's disease. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 1985;9(5-6):509-514
Merskey H. The analysis of hysteria. London,UK: Baillière Tindall, 1979.
Merskey H. The manufacture of personalities. The production of multiple personality disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry. 1992;160:327-340.
Merskey H. Multiple Personality Disorder and False Memory Syndrome. British Journal of Psychiatry. 1995;166:281-283.
