Om författaren
Peter J. Verhagen is a graduate of the School of Medicine
(1983) and the School of Theology (1988) of the University of
Utrecht, the Netherlands. In 1988 he was reg...
Om författaren
Peter J. Verhagen is a graduate of the School of Medicine
(1983) and the School of Theology (1988) of the University of
Utrecht, the Netherlands. In 1988 he was registered as a
psychiatrist. He is a practicing psychiatrist and theologian, group
psychotherapist and supervisor (2002) of the Dutch Association for
Group Dynamics and Group Psychotherapy. He is Director of the
Program for the Treatment of Personality Disorders, Meerkanten GGz
Ermelo/Harderwijk. He is also co-founder and present chair of the
WPA Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry, founded in
2003, and Secretary of the Dutch Foundation for Psychiatry and
Religion. He is lead editor of the Dutch journal, ’Psyche
& Geloof’ (Psyche & Faith).
Herman M. van Praag is Professor Emeritus of the Dutch
Universities of Groningen, Utrecht, Maastricht, and the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA. He established the
first department of biological psychiatry in Europe (Groningen) and
became the first European Professor of Biological Psychiatry in
1968. He is well known for his extensive research on the biological
determinants of depression and depressive symptoms for which he was
decorated many times. He chaired the WPA Section on Religion,
Spirituality and Psychiatry.
Juan J. López-Ibor, Jr is Professor and Chairman of
Psychiatry and Director of the Institute for Psychiatry and Mental
Health of the San Carlos Hospital of the Complutense University in
Madrid. He is also Director of the World Health Organization
Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health,
Spain, and Fellow of the Royal National Academy of Medicine of
Spain, Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine of
Zaragoza, and Honorary Fellow of the Spanish Medical Chirurgical
Academy. He has been Secretary General, President-Elect and
President of the World Psychiatric Association. He is author, alone
or in collaboration, of 53 books and of 219 chapters in monographs
by other authors. He has published more than 330 papers in
scientific journals and has presented more than 1, 500 papers and
communications in scientific meetings.
John L. Cox is Professor Emeritus at Keele University and
Visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.
During his period as President and Dean of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists, he encouraged greater emphasis on international
mental health, and the bridging of arts and science. He is the
Immediate Past Secretary General of the World Psychiatric
Association. He has a longstanding interest in the relationship
between religion, spirituality and mental health, and was the lead
editor of a book based on the work of Paul Tournier. He co-authored
Modern Management of Perinatal Mental Disorder, and has published
widely in perinatal mental health and transcultural psychiatry.
Driss Moussaoui is the Founder and the Chairman of the Ibn
Rushd University Psychiatric Centre in Casablanca, Morocco, a WHO
Collaborating Centre in Mental Health since 1992. He is the
President-Elect of the World Association of Social Psychiatry and a
member of the French Academy of Medicine. He is the Vice-Chair of
the World Psychiatric Association Section on Spirituality, Religion
and Psychiatry. Driss Moussaoui has published (or edited) 10 books
and hundreds of papers in international journals.
