Title Profesorius Juozas Blažys – psichiatras, mokslininkas, visuomenės veikėjas /
Translation of Title Professor Juozas Blažys – psychiatrist, academic and public figure.
Authors Dembinskas, Algirdas ; Matonienė, Valdonė
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Is Part of Medicina. 2005, t. 41, Nr. 5, p. 442-445.. ISSN 1010-660X
Keywords [eng] Psychiatry ; Toleration ; Community
Abstract [eng] Juozas Blažys (1890–1939) – the first chief of the Department of Nerve and Psychiatric Illnesses and Vice Rector of Lithuanian Vytautas Magnus University in the interwar period. In 2004 we commemorated the 65th anniversary of his death. He was a highly prominent personality of enormous erudition and productive scientist. He wrote a coursebook “Introduction to psychiatry”, monograph-study “Tolerance, as a basis of culture”, published around 100 articles in “Medicina” and various journals of that period. His ideas about psychiatry are relevant nowadays too. Professor was interested in the causes of psychosis origin, analyzed alcoholic, somatogenic psychosis, was interested and working in the fields of forensic psychiatry, military expertise, heredity and is contradictory evaluated in the field of eugenics till now. Juozas Blažys was born in Šiauliai. In 1914 he graduated Petersburg Academy of Military Medicine, worked at the various hospitals of Russian military. In 1918 he returned to Lithuania and started to work at the psychiatric hospital in Tauragė at first as a chief of department, and later as director, at the same time working as a physician of Tauragė district. In 1920–1921 Juozas Blažys lectured the course of psychiatry at Higher Courses of Study in Kaunas. In 1924, after the establishment of the University of Kaunas, he was elected as a chief of the department of Nerve and Psychiatric Illnesses. In 1935 he was granted the degree of professor, in 1938 – appointed as... [to full text].
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2005