Luc Ciompi

Luciano "Luc" Ciompi (born October 10, 1929 in Florence, Italy) is a Swiss psychiatrist. He was professor of psychiatry, medical director of the University Social Psychiatric Clinic and co-director of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Berne/Switzerland from 1977 to 1994. He is the founder of the concept of Affect-logics, an interdisciplinary theory of the rules of interaction between emotion and cognition, and the founder of Soteria Berne, (s. below) He also proposed a conceptual framework towards an integrative, psycho-socio-biological understanding of mental illnesses, and promoted community-based halfway institutions for crisis intervention and social reintegration of the mentally ill. Provided by Wikipedia