Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Podcasts
“As I Remember It” with Professor Jules Angst – an audio podcast
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica introduced in the February 2009 issue a new series of editorials under the working title of “As I Remember It”, in which eminent psychiatrists reflect on their careers and the issues that have been important to them. The first editorial was by Prof. Jules Angst. It is freely available from Acta Pyschiatrica Scandinavica online. Please use the link below. The same issue also featured a biography of Prof. Angst by Editor-in-Chief Povl Munk-Jørgensen, also available below.
Prof. Jules Angst is Mr. Affective Disorder. He is highly esteemed in the scientific and clinical communities broadly, and is especially known for his longitudinal follow-up studies on affective disorders. He has contributed to an outstanding degree to our knowledge about the course of illness and comorbidity. His work is now essential for clinical work especially regarding prediction of the course and outcome of affective disorders.
The interview focuses on his epidemiological approach to Psychiatry. Click here to listen. (mp3, 23.7mb, 32 mins 58 secs)
Interview by Wendy Barnaby.
Related Articles:
Angst, J. The psychoanalysis of schizophrenia.
Munk-Jørgensen, P. Biography: Jules Angst.
Video podcast with Sir David Goldberg
Sir David Goldberg has during his remarkable career, starting in the 1950s, continuously taken a clear and visible leadership in psychiatry, in specific within areas of great importance: mental illness services in psychiatry health care, mental illnesses in the community and mental illness services in developing countries. At present, he is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Psychiatry being active within the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and the revision for DSM-V and ICD-11. In 1997 he was given a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II.
Please read David Goldberg’s editorial: “Looking back over my professional life” published in the Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica May issue.
Click here to watch the full interview with Sir David Goldberg (Flash file, 32 mins, 25 secs)
Related articles:
Goldberg, Looking back over my professional life
Munk-Jørgensen, Biography of Professor Sir David Goldberg
