Jules Angst (born 11 December 1926) is a Swiss academic who is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Zurich University in

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, Switzerland, and Honorary Doctor of

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, Germany.

Early life

Angst was born in

, where he also grew up. He completed his medical and psychiatric training in

under his mentor, Professor Manfred Bleuler (son and student of

Eugen Bleuler Paul Eugen Bleuler ( ; ; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist most notable for his influence on modern concepts of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including "schizophrenia", " schizoid", "a ...

). From 1969 to 1994, Jules Angst was Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the

University of Zurich The University of Zurich (UZH, ) is a public university, public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of the ...

Medical School and Head of the Research Department of Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital (the

Burghölzli Burghölzli, named after the wooded hill in the district of Riesbach in southeastern Zürich where it is located, is the ''Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich'' ('Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich'), a psychiatric hospital in Switzerl ...

). Jules Angst has continued uninterrupted his epidemiological and clinical research at the University (Universitatsklinik) since leaving his Chair. He has remained the President of the European Bipolar Forum since 2003. His scientific contributions include 15 books (as author and/or editor), 154 book chapters, and 539 journal articles.

Awards

Jules Angst has received many awards in recognition of his work, including the Anna Monika Awards (1967/1969), Paul Martini Prize for Methodology in Medicine (1969), Otto Naegeli Prize (1983), Eric Stromgren Medal (1987), the Emil Kraepelin Medal of the Max Planck Institute,

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(1992), the Jean Delay Prize of the World Psychiatric Association (2017), and the Wilhelm Griesinger Medal of the DGPPN (German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (2018). Other awards include the Selo Prize NARSAD/Depression Research, USA (1994), Mogens Schou Award for Research in Bipolar Disorder, USA (2001), Burgholzli Award for

Social Psychiatry Social psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that studies how the social environment impacts mental health and mental illness. It applies a cultural and societal lens on mental health by focusing on mental illness prevention, community-based care, m ...

(2001), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (2002), Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Bipolar Forum (2006), the Wagner-Jauregg Medal (2007), ECNP Lifetime Achievement Award in Neuropsychopharmacology (2012), Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (2013), and the Joseph Zubin Award of the American Psychopathological Association (2015). In 1999, he was named Honorary Member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP).

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Laudatio für Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. h.c. Jules Angst
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