User:Japal1950

April 22, 2012: After have sent, for its possible acceptation in Wikipedia, the article entitled Hyperia, I have checked there is already a brief article with this same title. So, if this coincidence constitutes an obstacle to accept the article sent, I propose this new title for it: Hyperia: a superior mental function of epileptic nature. --Japal1950 (talk) 08:18, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

April 20, 2012: May name is Javier Álvarez Rodríguez. I was born in 1950 in Ponferrada (León, Spain). In 1973 I received my degree in Medicine from the Faculty Medicine of Santiago de Compostela and, in 1976, after three years of training in the Psychiatry Department of the Cátedra de Psiquiatría de Santiago, under the management of Professor Demetrio Barcia Salorio, I obtained the title of Psychiatric Specialist.

Since then, and up to June 1st 2008, I’ve been developing my professional practice as a clinical psychiatrist in the Hospital of León (Spain). This means thirty two years devoted, basically, to attending mental patients and I consider this clinical experience to be my professional legacy. It may sound like a cliché but the people from whom I have learned the most are my patients, especially the so-called “schizophrenics”. Eight years ago I was appointed as Chief of Psychiatry Service at the Hospital of León and since then I have been combining this management position with my usual clinical practice.

I have also studied in many different fields covering a wide range of interests from an Intensive Course in Electro-convulsant Therapy to a four year Seminar of Freudian Psychoanalysis or to a specialist Clinical Management Course at Deusto’s Univerity. In this sense my psychiatric training has been, and still is, a bit eclectic, I’m always open to all different movements and schools of psychiatric thought. These have not only been eclectic but also integrating, meaning that I’ve always tried to find the point where all these movements meet and complement each other.

After more than thirty years of professional practice and theoretical training, I conceive the psychiatrist as a physician specialized in diagnosing and treating mental disorders. To do that, apart from having all the specific technical knowledge of the specialty, he must be an expert in communicating with and relating to others. Indeed a psychiatrist´s job entails communicating daily, not only with patients and their families, but also with other professionals (psychologists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, etc.) that work as a team in psychiatric assistance departments. Therefore a psychiatrist must be able to handle both individual and group relations.

I’ve also worked as a teacher (I still do): as a psychopathology and psychiatry lecturer at Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud (Healthcare Science School) and Escuela de Trabajadores Sociales (Social Workers School) of the University of Leon and as the professor of the  Postgraduate Course of the Pharmacology Department of the same university, tutor of Residents in Psychiatric Service of Hospial of León.

I have also published a couple of books and several articles in scientific magazines. All my publications were on the subject of the relations between psychiatric disorders, epilepsy and mental creativity. --Japal1950 (talk) 15:00, 20 April 2012 (UTC)