MICHAEL SARAGA, MD, PHD, is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at Lausanne University, Switzerland. A psychiatrist-psychotherapist, he is currently responsible for the inpatient units of the Service of General Psychiatry at the Cery hospital. His clinical interests include group therapy and psychodrama, psychoanalytical psychotherapy, phenomenological psychiatry, and more generally psychopathology. He previously practiced for 10 years in liaison psychiatry at Lausanne University Hospital, working on medicine in general. He is the current co-director of a Bachelor 1 module dedicated to the humanities and social sciences and their contribution to medicine and medical education.
Current research interests: critical appraisal of models of clinical practice (e.g., the biopsychosocial model, the anatomo-clinical model, whole person care); the Aristotelian concept of phronesis and how it can be applied in medicine and medical education; the evolution of the missions and means of psychiatric hospitals over the past decades (since the closing down of asylums and the emergence of antipsychiatry).
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