mircea lăzărescu

Lăzărescu Mircea, born in 1939 in Lugoj, studied Medicine in Timișoara and Cluj-Napoca, finishing the university with a bachelor paper on the unstable child (ADHD). During his trainee years, he worked in the Neuropsychiatric Hospital in „Paclișa-Hațeg” (alongside Dr. V. Ilea), and in the Neurosis Sanatorium in “Săvârşin” (with Dr. A. Dan). In 1965, he becomes Prof. E. Pamfil’s assistant, at the Psychiatric Clinic in Timișoara. His doctorate studies (1969) the fobic psychopathology and is followed by the publishing of the “Obsessive Pathology” book, in 1973. During his years spent in the Psychiatric Clinic of Timișoara, which he ran during 1983 and 2010, he focused on community psychiatry and started a case-registry for psychosis (1985-2004). His main area of focus was psychopathology (published books: “Introduction in anthropological psychopathology” – 1989, “Clinical psychopathology” – 1994, “The basis of clinical psychopathology” – 2010) and he was constantly active in these areas of the AEP and WPA.

Starting with the year 1992, he became a Psychiatry Professor, Ph.D. coordinator and was elected Emeritus Member of the Medical Science Academy. Between 1990 and 1995, he was the President of the Romanian Psychiatric Association, during which time he encouraged and supported the founding of many profile associations (The Romanian Psychotherapy Association, The Psychiatric Trainee Association, The Romanian Social-Psychiatry Association, etc.). In 1990, he founded and became the President of the Psychiatric Association of Timișoara, which he still presides today. Through this association, he organized many scientific events, hosting both national and international personalities, two international congresses of psychopathology (1992 and 1994) and two Danubian Psychiatry Symposiums (1996 and 2012).

Prof. Mircea Lăzărescu also published monographs, collaborating with Dr. O. Bumbea – “Obsessive Pathology” (in 2008) and with Prof. A. Nireștean – “Personality Disorders” (in 2007). During this last decade, he focused on the cultural-evolutionary psychopathology (“What is the Mental Disorder” - 2014) and on applying this doctrine in psychosis (“The psychopathology of psychosis” –  2016, “The main psychopathology syndromes and their correspondent in normality” – currently in work).

He also published memoirs (“The colours of nostalgia” – 1998, “Odiseu without Ithaca” - 2009), Philosophical-anthropology essays (“Essay on the intermediate beings” – 1994, “About Holiday, gardens and logos” - 2004) and was interested in the contribution of the Romanian intellectuals in Modern Europe’s cultural synthesis (“Torture, extasy and high madness in the XXth Century” – 2011, “The wise-men quarrel on time” – Cioran, Eliade, Noica, Heidegger, “The Unbearable Phylosophy” –  Noica 2017), and participated constantly to Cioran and Noica Symposiums.