Maria Luisa Figueira

Maria Luisa Figueira (born 1944)[1] is a Portuguese Consultant psychiatrist, psychiatrist and academic known for her research in clinical and experimental psychopathology and psychopharmacology, particularly in relation to bi-polar disorders and schizophrenia. She is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Medicine and Head of the Psychiatric Department at the Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon.[2]

Maria Luisa Figueira
Born1944
 Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
Scientific career
FieldsPsychiatry
InfluencedMario Di Fiorino

Life and career

Figueira grew up on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Her father was a lawyer and her mother an Englishwoman born in Gibraltar. After completing her secondary education at the Liceu Nacional in Funchal, she attended the University of Lisbon, receiving her medical degree in 1973. She then worked as an assistant professor in the psychology department of the university's Faculty of Medicine and took post-graduate courses in mathematics and computer science at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. It was during this time that she began her research into psychopharmacology, working in the Group for Psychopharmalogical Studies organized by Manuel Paes de Sous at the Hospital de Santa Maria. On the strength of their research both were admitted to the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum in 1978. Figueira went on to receive her PhD in 1984 with a dissertation on interpersonal behaviour in schizophrenia.[3][4]

In 2002 she was appointed Coordinator of Mental Health Services at the Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon and subsequently became the head of its Psychiatric Department. The following year she co-founded the journal Bridging Eastern and Western Psychiatry with the Italian psychiatrist Mario Di Fiorino.[5] Figueira received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Forum of Psychosis and Bipolarity in 2010 and is the President (as of 2013) of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental (Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health).[6][7]

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gollark: Yet they do not do this, and instead ineffectually demand communism which would totally make everything great and wonderful.
gollark: Consider: the people complaining about wanting communism could probably work in a well-paying job, obtain money, and donate it to effective charities like the Against Malaria Foundation.
gollark: Capitalism seems to be doing a fairly okay job of satisfying the values of, well, people in places with more resources, and apparently most people's values don't actually involve helping people they don't directly interact with because humans are bad.
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References
  1. Bibliotecas Municipais do Porto. Figueira, Maria Luisa. Retrieved 27 September 2013 (in Portuguese).
  2. Hospital de Santa Maria. Serviço de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental Archived 2013-09-24 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 September 2013 (in Portuguese).
  3. Gamito, Carlos. "Palavras com saber e com sabor: Palavras da Professora Doutora Maria Luísa Figueira" Archived 2013-10-02 at the Wayback Machine. Hospital de Santa Maria. Retrieved 27 September 2013 (in Portuguese)
  4. Ban, Thomas A.; Healy, David; Shorter, Edward (eds.) (2010). The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP Archived 2013-10-02 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. 2, pp. 208 and 324. Animula. ISBN 9634081819
  5. Di Fiorino, Mario and Figueira, Maria Luisa (2003). "A Presentation". Bridging Eastern and Western Psychiatry, Vol 1, No. 1. Retrieved 27 September 2013
  6. International Review of Psychosis & Bipolarity. Lifetime Achievement Award Archived 2012-04-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  7. Sociedade Portuguesa de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental. Corpos Sociais. Retrieved 27 September 2013 (in Portuguese).
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