M.D. Graduation at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Carol Davila’ - Bucharest, 1992. Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, 1997 Graduate Thesis: Karl Jaspers’ Anthropology and Political Philosophy.Ph.D. Postgraduate (Doctor in medical sciences) at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Carol Davila’ - Bucharest, 2001 Doctoral Thesis: Forensic and Psychopathological Criteria of Irresponsibility
Since 1994, Reseacher at the Forensic Psychiatry Department of the National Institute of Legal Medicine ‘Mina Minovici’, Bucharest.
Since 2005, Senior forensic psychiatrist at the same department
Young Investigator Awardee of the 14th Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences (IAFS) - Tokyo, 1996
Posterprize winner of the German Society of Legal Medicine, 79th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Legal Medicine - Essen, 2000
Volkswagen Fellow - Konferenz der Deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften at the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry of the Charité - Free University of Berlin, 1998
Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2008
Research Interests:
Forensic psychiatry, the social history of forensic medicine and psychiatry, history of medicine, epidemiology, criminology and forensic psychoanalysis, cultural and psychiatric anthropology, medical epistemology, and intellectual history.
The late works of Emil Kraepelin
Octavian Buda
7th May 2009; Goethe Institute Riga, Latvia.
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) is identified as the founder of contemporary scientific psychiatry, as well as of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Kraepelin believed that psychiatric diseases stemmed from biological and genetic malfunctions. His theories dominated the field of psychiatry at the start of the twentieth century, despite the later psychodynamic incursions of Sigmund Freud and his followers.
Published Books:
Irresponsibility - from the Point of View of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine with Applications in Penal, Civil and Familial Law. Bucharest: Editura Stiintelor Medicale, 2006.
(ed.). Criminality: Its Legal and Medical History in Romania. Bucharest: Editura Paralela 45, 2007. (ed.). An Anthropology of Marginality - Forensic Psychiatry in Romania 1860-1940. Bucharest: Editura Caligraf, 2007.
Selected Journal Articles:
“The Face of Madness in Romania.” History of Psychiatry (forthcoming).
with Arsene D, Ceausu M, Dermengiu D, and Curca GC. “Georges Marinesco and the early research in neuropathology.” Neurology 72 (January 2009): pp.88-91.
“Marginalization versus Mental Illness and Stigmatization: Bioethical Dilemmas.” Romanian Journal of Bioethics 2 (2008): pp.83-99.
“Ethical issues in forensic and community Psychiatry.” Romanian Journal of Bioethics 4 (2006): pp.25-28.
