G. E. Berrios

Who is G. E. Berrios?

German E. Berrios is a Professor of Psychiatry at Cambridge University in the UK.

He was born in Tacna, Peru, and studied medicine and philosophy at the University of San Marcos. Subsequently, he read psychology and philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he was a scholar by examination. He did postgraduate work in the history and philosophy of science at the same university under Charles Webster, Alistair Cameron Crombie, and Rom Harré; and trained in neurology and psychiatry at the Oxford United Hospitals.

Between 1973 and 1976 he was a Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Leeds where he trained in medical statistics under Professor Max Hamilton and received didactic analysis from Harry Guntrip.

Since 1977, he has taught at Cambridge University, UK where he currently holds the Chair of the Epistemology of Psychiatry and is a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He is a Life Fellow of Robinson College, and Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the UK, the British Psychological Society, and the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1989, he founded the international journal History of Psychiatry of which he remains the editor.