Auteur: Drozdstoj Stoyanov

Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, Ph D, FRCPC, DFAPA is Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, Chief of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Montreal University Institute of Mental Health (Canada), and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at The George Washington University (USA). Di Nicola has advanced training in psychology, psychiatry and philosophy and co-directs a graduate course on psychiatry and the humanities. He was nominated Academician, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Di Nicola is Founder & President, Canadian Association of Social Psychiatry, and President-Elect, World Association of Social Psychiatry. He has won numerous awards for research and leadership in psychiatry and is the author of A Stranger in the Family: Culture, Families, & Therapy (Norton, 1997) and the award-winning Letters to a Young Therapist (Atropos, 2011). Drozdstoy Stoyanov, MD, Ph D, DSc, Pg Cert, IDFAPA is Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Leader of the Translational Neuroscience Division in the Research Institute at the Medical University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria. Stoyanov is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and project partner of the Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health & Social Care, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK. Significant activities include being Vice-President, European Society for Person-Centred Healthcare; Vice-Chair of Philosophy SIG, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK; Member, Section of Philosophy and Humanities of World Psychiatric Association; and Member, Standing Committee on Training, Section of Psychiatry, European Union of Medical Specialists. Professor Stoyanov is an International Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.