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Harold Merskey, psychiatrist, was born February 11, 1929 in England, United Kingdom. He received the doctorate in medicine (DM) at Oxford University, UK, in 1965, for his post-graduate thesis on the concept of pain.[1] In those years, the DM degree from Oxford denoted a higher academic rank than the one of regular physicians, and was awarded on a post-graduate level only to those who completed a thesis of scientific value. Harold Merskey had been a medical scientist with a primary focus on psychiatry. Most of his work was carried out in his position as a professor of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, since 1977. He has retired in 2014, but in 2016 was awarded honorary doctorate from the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry for his medical research.

Scientific Work
Harold Merskey was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pain Research and Management,[2] and has published several psychiatric books, more than 460 scientific articles in medical journals and chapters in books (see the PubMed, Google Scholar, and Research Gate websites). He is well known for his research on pain,[3] numerous topics in pharmacology, schizophrenia (e.g., as a part of Landmark’s project[4]), dementia[5], and for his outspoken pioneering criticism of the outdated concept of hysteria[6,7], and of the misleading concepts of multiple personality (also now known as the Dissociative Identity Disorder[8]). He promoted the use of the concept of false memory syndrome as a scientific replacement for the speculative construct of “recovered memories[9].”

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