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Educated in Cracow where he attended one of the best Grammar Schools and from 1936 he started his medical studies at the Jagiellonian University. The beginning of WWII broke his studies before graduation; he volunteered for the Polish Army to defend his country from Nazi invasion. Then he was interned in Hungary where he fled with some of Polish troops after Poland was invaded by German armies. In 1940 he managed to escape internment and went to France and then Spain where he was caught by Franco's Fascists and put into the concentration camp of Miranda del Ebro .

Later he was in Britain, for a short time with the Polish aircraft division; but in 1944Events World War II January January 4 The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munck January 17 British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 20 The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin;- 1945Events January January 5 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 World War II: he continued his medical studies in EdinburghArthur's Seat. See also for a panoramic view from Holyrood Park towards Ocean Terminal. Edinburgh (pronounced ED-in-burra ( SAMPA: ["Ed@n%b@r@])), Dun Eideann in Scottish Gaelic, is a major and historic city on the east coast of Scotland on the south shor graduating in 1946Events January January 4 Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940 January 7 Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders the country is divided into four occupation zones Januar. Soon he returned to Poland and took up psychiatry at the Psychiatric Clinic of Collegium Medicum in Cracow. As a concentration camp inmate himself he took part in a rehabilitation programme of survivors from the AuschwitzAuschwitz in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of the same name, by Nazi Germany during World War Two. Rarely, it may refer to that town, also known by its current Polish name Oswiecim . concentration camp. His medical career was really outstanding and apart from that he became one of the best Polish researchers in the field of psychiatry. His theories of information metabolism and axiological psychiatry are quite well known and his scientific work covers over 140 publications and several books.

His books :

• Psychopatologia nerwic (Psychopathology of neuroses)
• Schizofrenia ( SchizophreniaSchizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behaviour, thinking, and emotion. The term schizophrenia comes from the Greek words schizo split or divide) and phrenos mind) and is best tra)
• Melancholia (Melancholy)
• Psychopatie (Psychopathologies)
• Lek (Fear)
• Podstawowe zagadnienia wspolczesnej psychiatrii
• Poznanie chorego
• Rytm zycia (The Rhythm of Life)