Psychopharmacology Reconsidered: A Concise Guide Exploring the Limits of Diagnosis and Treatment

Robert Haim Belmaker, Division of Psychiatry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. belmaker@bgu.ac.il

Prof. Robert Haim Belmaker is an Israeli psychiatrist who has had major academic positions in Israeli psychiatry since 1974. He had a formative influence on biological directions in Israeli psychiatry. He was Professor of Psychiatry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva Israel and is now Emeritus. He was President of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2008-2010, Vice President of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders 2012-2014, President of the Israel Psychiatry Association 2015-2018 and is Fellow Emeritus of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He has co-edited 18 books in psychopharmacology and authored over 400 original papers.

Pesach Lichtenberg, M.D., The Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Soteria Israel; and the Jerusalem Mental Health Center.

pesach.lichtenberg@mail.huji.ac.il

Prof. Pesach Lichtenberg has directed acute care psychiatric wards for 25 years, currently in the Jerusalem Mental Health Center. He served as the Academic Chair of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His academic work has covered psychopharmacology, diagnosis, hypnosis and placebo. His clinical and research activity in recent years focuses on the Soteria model for psychosis, which he brought to Israel, and which has catalyzed far-reaching changes in the public mental health care system.