Introduction to 'What is progress in psychiatric research?'

摘要

Stephan Heckers is well qualified to take on the task of this essay-to try to define progress in psychiatric research. He was educated in Germany and hence is able to read the primary sources of the most relevant historical material in the original language-since the modern paradigm of psychiatric research is largely a product of late nineteeth-century German neuropsychiatry. He studied philosophy before deciding to go into medicine and then psychiatry. He has been a biologically oriented researcher with a focus on schizophrenia but is also interested in "big picture" questions about our field.