Milan N. Popović
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Milan Popović, Ph.D. is a renowned Serbian psychiatrist
-psychoanalyst, a full professor of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
.
He was born in 1924 in Belgrade
, Serbia
. He graduated from the University of Belgrade School of Medicine
, specialized neuropsychiatry
and was awarded a doctor's degree with the theme "Group psychotherapy
of the schizophrenic
in hospital conditions". He was elected associate professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of Belgrade University in 1972 and full professor in 1980.
Milan Popović is a pioneer in developing the group psychiatry in Serbia and opening psychiatric departments towards the society. He is a founder of "Psychoanalytical psychotherapy school" at post graduated studies of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.
He is a teacher of many generations of psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists in Serbia. He has given an important contribution to the development of psychiatry in the country, especially the development of psychotherapy and social psychiatry, truthfully representing domestic achievements abroad.
in London, the Centre for mental health of 13th Arrondissement in Paris and University of California
in Los Angeles, altogether for two years.
As one of the founders of the Institute of Mental Health (Belgrade)
, he has been leading the first Open department, mostly for psychosis
since 1963. The degree of Primarius was given to him in 1968. From 1979 till he retired, he was the chief of the Centre for psychotherapy and sociotherapy, mostly doing educational and scientific activity. He has been working as a director of the Institute for mental health for a year and a half.
At the Faculty of Philosophy of Belgrade University he has been teaching Social Pathology (Sociology of mental disorders) and General psychopathology
. He was the chief of sociology department, the director of the Department for philosophy and sociology, and from 1987 till 1989 the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Belgrade University.
At the Faculty of Medicine of Belgrade University he was one of the organizers of postgraduate lectures from psychotherapy
and social therapy
. He was also the president of committee for passing the sub specialized exam from psychotherapy. He is a founder and the first leader of Psychological counseling service for students of Belgrade University.
As a visiting professor he held lectures at Centre for Rehabilitation of psychiatric patients La Verriere in Paris, University of California
in Los Angeles and Boston University
. In June 1990 he became Affiliate Teacher of Institute of Group Analysis
in London.
He has been also working as a consultant of the Centre for victims of war trauma, affiliated department of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation (Serbia and Montenegro).
He has been doing medical ethics. He was the president of Ethical committee of Serbian doctors' society from 1992 till 1997. At the end of 1992 Milan Popović was elected president of the Association of Serbian physicians for peace, the branch of International association of physicians for the prevention of nuclear war. This international association was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace.
He was the president of the section for psychotherapy of Serbian medical association.
Milan Popović has showed great interests in culture too. He was also, among the rest, the President of programmed Council of Cvijeta Zuzoric art gallery. After the invitation, he has been the member of European association of culture with the seat in Venice since 1989.
with the seat in Salzburg.
He is a member of honour of the Association of psychologists of Serbia and Belgrade psychoanalytical group. In 1989 he was awarded the Yugoslav Ordain of merits for people with silver rays.
of 167 scientific and professional works, of which 37 abroad, alone or with associates. Among these works there are 10 monographs, textbooks, books in which he is the only one or the first author, and from the fields of psychotherapy and social psychotherapy. We have abstracted the most important works:
, especially concerning her relationship with her husband Albert Einstein
. This study is based on the presentation and analysis of about 70 letters and postcards which Mileva Marić, and some of them Albert Einstein too, addressed to Helena Savić (grandmother of Milan Popović), their close friend and colleague from studies in Zurich. These letters are significant for better understanding of the relationship evolution of the Einstein couple, as well as for psychology of this ingenious man.
Related work:
He is married to Bosa Kićevac Popović, a painter. They have two children, an art historian, Ana Popović Bodroža, expert associate of the Belgrade Heritage House and Bojan Popović, director of the Gallery of Frescoes in Belgrade.
Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
-psychoanalyst, a full professor of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
The University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Serbia, founded in the early 19th century within the Belgrade Higher School...
.
He was born in 1924 in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
. He graduated from the University of Belgrade School of Medicine
University of Belgrade School of Medicine
The Belgrade Medical School is a constituent institution of the University of Belgrade, which offers a wide range of academic courses in Serbian and English, including specialist practice within a network of hospitals, institutes and medical clinics...
, specialized neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychiatry is the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system. It preceded the current disciplines of psychiatry and neurology, in as much as psychiatrists and neurologists had a common training....
and was awarded a doctor's degree with the theme "Group psychotherapy
Group psychotherapy
Group psychotherapy or group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists treat a small group of clients together as a group...
of the schizophrenic
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...
in hospital conditions". He was elected associate professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of Belgrade University in 1972 and full professor in 1980.
Milan Popović is a pioneer in developing the group psychiatry in Serbia and opening psychiatric departments towards the society. He is a founder of "Psychoanalytical psychotherapy school" at post graduated studies of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.
He is a teacher of many generations of psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists in Serbia. He has given an important contribution to the development of psychiatry in the country, especially the development of psychotherapy and social psychiatry, truthfully representing domestic achievements abroad.
Scientific and professional functions
He was attending professional courses from analytical psychotherapy at Tavistock ClinicTavistock Clinic
The in London was founded in 1920 by Dr. Hugh Crichton-Miller, a psychiatrist who developed psychological treatments for shell-shocked soldiers during and after the First World War. The clinic's first patient was, however, a child. Its clinical services were always, therefore, for both children...
in London, the Centre for mental health of 13th Arrondissement in Paris and University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
in Los Angeles, altogether for two years.
As one of the founders of the Institute of Mental Health (Belgrade)
Institute of Mental Health (Belgrade)
The Institute of Mental Health in Belgrade , established in 1963, is the first social-psychiatric institution in the Balkans. It is a tertiary care medical institution that performs specialized, consultative and stationed healthcare in the fields of adult psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry,...
, he has been leading the first Open department, mostly for psychosis
Psychosis
Psychosis means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality"...
since 1963. The degree of Primarius was given to him in 1968. From 1979 till he retired, he was the chief of the Centre for psychotherapy and sociotherapy, mostly doing educational and scientific activity. He has been working as a director of the Institute for mental health for a year and a half.
At the Faculty of Philosophy of Belgrade University he has been teaching Social Pathology (Sociology of mental disorders) and General psychopathology
Psychopathology
Psychopathology is the study of mental illness, mental distress, and abnormal/maladaptive behavior. The term is most commonly used within psychiatry where pathology refers to disease processes...
. He was the chief of sociology department, the director of the Department for philosophy and sociology, and from 1987 till 1989 the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Belgrade University.
At the Faculty of Medicine of Belgrade University he was one of the organizers of postgraduate lectures from psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a general term referring to any form of therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained professional and a client or patient; family, couple or group...
and social therapy
Social Therapy
Social Therapy is an activity-theoretic practice developed outside of academia at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. Its primary methodologists are cofounders of the East Side Institute, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman...
. He was also the president of committee for passing the sub specialized exam from psychotherapy. He is a founder and the first leader of Psychological counseling service for students of Belgrade University.
As a visiting professor he held lectures at Centre for Rehabilitation of psychiatric patients La Verriere in Paris, University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
in Los Angeles and Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
. In June 1990 he became Affiliate Teacher of Institute of Group Analysis
Institute of Group Analysis
The Institute of Group Analysis is a training organisation for group psychotherapists in the analytical tradition, based on the groundwork begun by S. H...
in London.
He has been also working as a consultant of the Centre for victims of war trauma, affiliated department of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation (Serbia and Montenegro).
He has been doing medical ethics. He was the president of Ethical committee of Serbian doctors' society from 1992 till 1997. At the end of 1992 Milan Popović was elected president of the Association of Serbian physicians for peace, the branch of International association of physicians for the prevention of nuclear war. This international association was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace.
He was the president of the section for psychotherapy of Serbian medical association.
Milan Popović has showed great interests in culture too. He was also, among the rest, the President of programmed Council of Cvijeta Zuzoric art gallery. After the invitation, he has been the member of European association of culture with the seat in Venice since 1989.
The membership in scientific institutions
In 1995 Milan Popović was chosen a full member of Medical academy of Serbian medical association, and in 1996 was promoted to a full member of medical department of European Academy of Sciences and ArtsEuropean Academy of Sciences and Arts
The European Academy of Sciences and Arts was created in 1990 in Salzburg, Austria by heart surgeon Felix Unger of Salzburg; the cardinal archbishop of Vienna, Franz König; and the political scientist and philosopher Nikolaus Lobkowicz....
with the seat in Salzburg.
He is a member of honour of the Association of psychologists of Serbia and Belgrade psychoanalytical group. In 1989 he was awarded the Yugoslav Ordain of merits for people with silver rays.
Scientific and professional work
He is the authorAuthor
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
of 167 scientific and professional works, of which 37 abroad, alone or with associates. Among these works there are 10 monographs, textbooks, books in which he is the only one or the first author, and from the fields of psychotherapy and social psychotherapy. We have abstracted the most important works:
- After Earthquake, Popović M., Petrović D. (The Lancet, 1964)
- La psychotherapie de groupe des schizophrenese par l image, Popović M., Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (Vol 29, N 1-4, 1978)
- Development of a screening method or early identification of emotional disorders with University students, Morić-Petrović S., Popović M. (Institute for mental health Belgrade, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, Monograph-Book, 1973)
- Group Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia, Popović M. (Medicinska knjiga, Belgrade-Zagreb, Book, 1975)
- Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy of Neurosis, Popović M., Jerotić V. (Four editions: 1985 Nolit, 1989 Zavod za udžbenike, 2003 Zlatousti and 2007 Ars Libri, Belgrade, Podgorica, Book)
- We and Those Different Ones, Popović M., the leader of research (Institute for social researches of the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, Monograph, 1988)
- Obsessive-Compulsive and Phobic Neurosis and Their Therapy, Popović M., Milovanović D. (Lek, Ljubljana, Book, 1981)
- The Relationship between a Therapist and a Patient, Popović M., Opalić P. (Naučna knjiga, Belgrade, Book, 1992)
- The Time of Hate and Suffering, Popović M. (Medicine and War, London, 1993)
- Etnopsychology and the Yugoslav Drama, Popović (International Physicians for the Prevention of the Nuclear War, XI World Congress, Mexico City, 1993; Gesundheitpolitik, No. 173, 5 October 1993; Mexican journal El Nacional, El Compleijo de Cain, 1 November 1993)
- The Charter about the rights of patients, one of the authors (The Centre for improvement of Law studies, Belgrade, 1999)
- The Mental State of Inhabitants of Serbia after many years of war, Popović M. (XV International World Congress of Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Paris, Notebook 63-64, 2000)
- Refuges of Milan Popović, Conversations M. Popović with M. Jevtić (Plato, Belgrade, Book, 2002)
- Euthanasia, Old Problems and New Challenges, Popović M. (Health Protection, Belgrade, No. 3, 2000)
- Freud's Contribution to Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy, Popovic M. (ZUS, Beograd, 2010)
Studies of Mileva Marić-Einstein
Milan Popović has been doing psychohistorical studies of Mileva Marić-EinsteinMileva Maric
Mileva Marić was one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe...
, especially concerning her relationship with her husband Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
. This study is based on the presentation and analysis of about 70 letters and postcards which Mileva Marić, and some of them Albert Einstein too, addressed to Helena Savić (grandmother of Milan Popović), their close friend and colleague from studies in Zurich. These letters are significant for better understanding of the relationship evolution of the Einstein couple, as well as for psychology of this ingenious man.
Related work:
- A friendship - Letters of Milena and Albert to Helena Savić, Popovic M. (Podgorica, CID, 1998)
- In Albert's Shadow, the Life and Letters of Mileva Marić, Einstein's First Wife, Popović M. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London, Book, September 2003)
Family
His father, Novak Popović, was an engineer of technology, and his mother, a pulmonologist Julka Popović Savić Ph.D. professor of the Faculty of Medicine of Belgrade University.He is married to Bosa Kićevac Popović, a painter. They have two children, an art historian, Ana Popović Bodroža, expert associate of the Belgrade Heritage House and Bojan Popović, director of the Gallery of Frescoes in Belgrade.