Antoni Kępiński

Antoni Kępiński (b. November 16, 1918 in Dolina near Stanisławów - June 8, 1972 in Kraków) was a Polish psychiatrist.

Educated in Kraków where he attended one of the best Grammar Schools - The Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School and from 1936 he started his medical studies at the Jagiellonian University. The beginning of World War II broke his studies before graduation; he volunteered for the Polish Army to defend his country from the German invasion. Then he was interned in Hungary where he fled with some of Polish troops after Poland was invaded by German armies. In 1940 he managed to escape internment and went to France and then Spain where he was detained and put into the prisoners camp of Miranda del Ebro.

Later he was freed and came to Britain, for a short time with the Polish aircraft division; but in 1944-1945 he continued his medical studies in Edinburgh graduating in 1946. Soon he returned to Poland and took up psychiatry at the Psychiatric Clinic of Collegium Medicum in Kracow.

As a concentration camp inmate himself he took part in a rehabilitation programme of survivors from the Auschwitz concentration camp. His medical career was really outstanding and apart from that he became one of the best Polish researchers in the field of psychiatry. His theories of information metabolism and axiological psychiatry are quite well known and his scientific work covers over 140 publications and several books.

His books:
 * Psychopatologia nerwic (Psychopathology of neuroses)
 * Schizofrenia (Schizophrenia)
 * Melancholia (Melancholy)
 * Psychopatie (Psychopathologies)
 * Lek (Fear)
 * Podstawowe zagadnienia wspolczesnej psychiatrii
 * Poznanie chorego
 * Rytm zycia (The Rhythm of Life)

External links:
 * [[Life circle, time and the self in Antoni Kępiński’s conception of information metabolism]] -- Published in 2007 in Poland

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