on June 28, 1914 and died in New York

New York

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 on August 7, 1981) was a psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

 regarded in his time as one of the world’s foremost authorities on schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...

. He received his M.D. from the University of Pisa

University of Pisa

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 but left Italy soon after because of Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

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's increasingly racial policies. He found refuge in the United States.

Arieti was professor of psychiatry at New York Medical School. He was also training analyst in the Division of Psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute

William Alanson White Institute

The William Alanson White Institute, founded in 1946, is an institution for training psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. It is located in New York City, USA, on the Upper West Side, in the Clara Thompson building....

, and editor of the six-volume American handbook of Psychiatry. His Interpretation of Schizophrenia won the National Book Award

National Book Award

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 in 1975.

Arieti undertook psychotherapy of schizophrenic patients, an unusual approach that few of his colleagues chose to pursue. His views in Interpretation of Schizophrenia, presently called the trauma model of mental disorders

Trauma model of mental disorders

Trauma models of mental disorders emphasize the effects of psychological trauma, particularly in early development, as the key causal factor in the development of some or many psychiatric disorders .Trauma models are typically founded on the view that traumatic experiences...

 in the profession, represent the counter-hypothesis to the mainstream medical model of mental disorders

Biological psychiatry

Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. It is interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as neuroscience, psychopharmacology, biochemistry, genetics and...

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External links

• associazionesilvanoarieti.org/english/ - Italian and English bilingual web page about Silvano Arieti
• Silvano Arieti's biographic sketch at Find A Grave
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• Schizo's Web by Harrison Mujica-Jenkins at latephilosophers.com