G. E. Berrios

Germán Elías Berríos FMedSci, FRCPsych (17 April 1940) is a professor of Psychiatry at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.

Life

Berrios was born in Tacna, Peru, and studied medicine and philosophy at the University of San Marcos.^{[citation needed]} He read Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology (PPP) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was a scholar by examination and obtained a BA in 1970. Then he trained in history and philosophy of science under A. Crombie, C. Webster and R. Harré earning a D.Phil. Sci. in 1972 and a MA in 1974. ^{[citation needed]} Between 1973 and 1976 he was a Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Leeds. In 1977 he obtained a M.A. from Robinson College, Cambridge where he is now a Life-Fellow.[1]

Berrios started teaching at Cambridge University in 1977 where he occupied the first chair of the Epistemology of Psychiatry.^[1] He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the UK, the British Psychological Society, and the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1989, he founded with Roy Porter the international journal History of Psychiatry[2] of which he remains the editor.^[2]

Work

His research has centred on the psychiatric complications of neurological disease and the history, structure and epistemological power of descriptive psychopathology.^[3] A Festschrift about his work was published in 2020.^[4]

Publications

Berrios has published 14 books and more than 400 papers on the clinical, historical and philosophical aspects of neuropsychiatry,^[5] descriptive psychopathology, and the hermeneutics of mental symptoms.^[6]

Awards

He holds degrees honoris causa from the University of Heidelberg (Germany);^[7] the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain);^[8] the University of Chile (Chile).;^[9] the University of Buenos Aires,^[10] Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Perú),^[11] Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) [3] . In 2006, a Chair in Descriptive Psychopathology carrying his name was established at the University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia).^[12] In 2008 the Ramón y Cajal Award by the International Neuropsychiatric Association;[4] Archived 12 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine; in 2010 he was made Honorary Fellow by the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the UK,^[13] in 2016 he received a Life-Achievement Award from La Sociedad Española de Psicogeriatría,^[14] and the Honorio Delgado Medal from the Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental Honorio Delgado – Hideyo Noguchi, Perú.^[15] In 2018 he received the ‘Maestro Laguna‘ award from the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain).^[16] In 2022, The British Neuropsychiatry Association distinguished him with its “Life Achievement Award”.

In 2007 he was awarded Grand Officier of the Order of the Sun by the Peruvian Government.^[17]

References

1. "Professor German Berrios :: Cambridge Neuroscience". www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
2. "SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research". SAGE Journals. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
3. Berrios G.E. (1996) The History of Mental Symptoms. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
4. Marková IS & Chen E (eds) (2020) Rethinking Psychopathology Creative Convergences. Berlin, Springer.
5. http://www.deficitdeatencionperu.org/berrios.htm
6. "Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences". www.crossingdialogues.com.
7. "Heidelberg y Cambridge: historia de dos departamentos universitarios" (pdf) (in Spanish).
8. "Germán Elías Berríos". www.uab.cat. UAB Barcelona.
9. "Psiquiatra Germán E. Berríos, Doctor Honoris Causa". noticias.med.uchile.cl (in Spanish).
10. Aires, Universidad de Buenos. "La UBA distinguió a Germán Berrios con el título de Doctor Honoris Causa". www.uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 November 2020.
11. "Crónicas de la Facultad".
12. "Cátedra Internacional de Psicopatología y Clínica Psiquiátrica Profesor Germán Berríos". www.javerianacali.edu.co (in Spanish).
13. Royal College of Psychiatrists UK, Annual Review 2010
14. SEPG Sociedad Española de Psicogeriatría. "Reconocimiento al Profesor Dr. Germán E. Berrios". Archived from the original on 14 December 2021 – via YouTube.
15. "Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental Honorio Delgado – Hideyo Noguchi". www.insm.gob.pe.
16. Fundación Lilly. "VII Lección Magistral Andrés Laguna 2018 Prof. Germán E. Berrios". Archived from the original on 14 December 2021 – via YouTube.
17. p66, Klaren P F (2017) Historical Dictionary of Perú. Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield