Thaddeus Eugene Weckowicz (c. 1919 – July 29, 2000) was a Polish-Canadian

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, Professor Emeritus of

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, and Theoretical Psychology at the

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, and Research Associate, Center for Systems Research, University of Alberta,T.E. Weckowicz (1989).
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'. Working paper Feb 1989. p.2 known for his research in chronic schizophrenics since the 1950s.

Biography

Weckowicz was the son of Waclaw and Zofia. He received his

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(MB and ChB) from the

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at the University of Edinburgh, his Diploma in Psychological Medicine (DPM) from the

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and his PhD from the

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in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Weckowicz started his career as psychologist in the late 1950s. In a notable experiment at the Saskatchewan Hospital in Weyburn. he "undertook perceptual experiments with patients in a long, narrow room that we built for him and established that schizophrenia does distort perception of distance, leaving a victim unsure about the space in which he moves".''Places, Volume 3'' MIT Press, 1986. p. 17 In the 1960s he became part of the faculty of the

as associate of

Ludwig von Bertalanffy Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (19 September 1901 – 12 June 1972) was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST). This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, app ...

, who was Professor at the University of Alberta from 1961 to 1968. From 1962 to 1984 Weckowicz was Professor of

and

at the University of Alberta, and Research Associate, Center for Systems Research, University of Alberta. Weckowicz was married to Helen Pauline Grit Liebel-Weckowicz, Professor of History and Classics at the University of Alberta from 1962 to 1995, with whom Weckowicz co-authored the 1990 book ''A History of Great Ideas in Abnormal Psychology'' and some other articles.

Publications

Books, a selection: * * 1971. ''Objective Therapy Predictors in Depression: A Multivariate Approach'' by T.E. Weckowicz and Others. * 1984. ''Models of Mental Illness: Systems and Theories of Abnormal Psychology''. June 1984 * 1989.
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972): A Pioneer of General Systems Theory
'. Working paper Feb 1989. p. 2 * 1990. ''A History of Great Ideas in Abnormal Psychology''. Co-authored with Helen P. Liebel-Weckowicz. Advances in Psychology V66, book series. North-Holland. Articles, a selection: * 1957. "Skin Histamine Test in Schizophrenia". With R. Hall. in: ''Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease:'' Vol 125, Is. 3. p. 452-458 * 1957. "Size constancy in schizophrenic patients". In: ''The British Journal of Psychiatry'', 1957 * 1958. "Distance Constancy in Schizophrenic Patients". Co-authored with R. Sommer and R. Hall in: ''The British Journal of Psychiatry'' 104: 1174–1182. * 1959. "Size constancy and abstract thinking in schizophrenic patients". With D.B. Blewett in: ''The British Journal of Psychiatry'' * 1960. "Body Image and Self-Concept in Schizophrenia An Experimental Study". With R. Sommer in: ''The British Journal of Psychiatry'' * 1966. "The Dimensionality of Clinical Depression," with A.J. Cropley in: ''Australian Journal of Psychology'', 18 (1966) * 1967. "A factor analysis of the Beck Inventory of Depression." With W. Muir and A.J. Cropley in: ''Journal of Consulting'' * 1975. "Effect of Marijuana Divergent and Convergent Production Cognitive Tests," ''Journal of Abnormal Psychology'' 84 (1975): * 1982. "Typologies of the theory of behaviorism since Descartes". With Helen P. Liebel-Weckowicz in: ''Sudhoffs Arch''. 1982;66(2):129-51. * 1988. "Ludwig Von Bertalanffy’s Contributions to Theoretical Psychology" in: ''Recent Research in Psychology'' 1988, pp 265–272 * 1990. "A History of Great Ideas". in: ''Abnormal Psychology''. Elsevier, 1990

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Weckowicz, Thaddeus E. 2000 deaths Canadian psychiatrists Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Leeds Academic staff of the University of Alberta University of Saskatchewan alumni 1910s births 20th-century Canadian psychologists