Demetrio Barcia Salorio

Category: Psychiatrist and writer
Birth Place: A Coruña
 Curriculum

He studied Medicine in Valencia. In 1963, he took his doctor's degree and presented the thesis 'Estudio de la hemodinámica cerebral en los estados depresivos', which was directed by Professor J. J. Barcia Goyanes. He specialised in Psychiatry and Neurology. He was an assistant lecturer of Psychiatry in Valencia (1995), Psychiatry Professor in Santiago de Compostela (1972-75), Psychiatry Professor in Murcia (1975 -), Director of 'Román Alberca' Psychiatric Hospital in Murcia (1975-1980) and head of the Psychiatry Service at the University General Hospital in Murcia (1980-). ACADEMIES: He is a member of the Academy of Medicine in Murcia, Academy of Sciences of New York, the 'Académie de Sciences et Belle Lettres' of Toulousse, the Académie Europeen des Sciences, Arts et de Lettres in Paris and the Academy of Medicine in Madrid. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES (restricted members): He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine of London and the International Federation of Psychoanalysis. He is also a member of the 'Medical Societé Psychologique' in Paris, the 'Societé de Histoire de la Psychiatrie et de Psychoanálsis' in Paris, the 'Societé L'Encephale' in Paris, the 'Societe Philosophique' in Toulousse and honourable member of the Argentinean Psychiatry Society, the Cordoba Psychiatry Society (Argentina) and the Panamanian Psychiatry Society. NATIONAL SOCIETIES: He is the president of the Spanish Psychiatry Society, the Society for the Progress of Psychiatry, the Spanish Psychogeriatrics Society and the Group for the Study on Depressión. He is an honourable of the Galician Psychiatry Society, the Andalusian Psychiatry Society, the Levantine Geriatrics Society and the Murcian Neurology Society.

 Work & Activities

He directed a Psychiatry Treaty in three volumes, with C. Ruiz Ogara and JJ López Albor and another one in two volumes. He wrote sixteen monographs: -About Psychiatry: Estudio de la hemodinamia cerebral en los estados depresivos (1963), Las aracnoiditis (with E. Amat) (1966), Delincuencia juvenil (1980), Demencias (1990), Semiología clínica psiquiátrica (with L. Gayral) (1991), Trastornos del sueño en las Psicosis (with L. Morcillo) (1996), Estudio de las alteraciones del sueño en Psiquiatría (with L. Morcillo) (1997), Psicosis cicloides (1997). -About Anthropology: Necesidad de una medicina antropológica (1979), L'Ivresse et la solitud. Une Pathologie de la rancontre (1995), La imagen de la vejez. Un punto de vista psiquiátrico (with P. P. Ayuso). -About History: Historia de la psiquiatría española (1996), Diccionario de personalidades ilustres de la Psiquiatría (1998). -About Art and Psiquiatry: El arte de la locura (with P. P. Ayuso) (1996), Locura y Creatividad (1998). -About Ethics: Confidencialidad y Consentimiento informado en Psiquiatría (with P. Pozo) (1998). He has directed seventeen monographs and collaborated in 58 national and international ones. He has also collaborated in the 'Rialp' Encyclopaedia and the New Oxford Dictionary of Psychiatry. He has written 430 articles about Psychiatry in national and international magazines and collaborated as rapporteur in 91 national and international conferences. He has also directed 35 doctoral thesis and organised many national meetings and conferences. He got the 'Alonso Allende' and 'Sanchís Banus' Psychiatry Prizes.