Congratulations to our colleague!

Charles Turk, M.D.

For three decades Dr. Charles Turk has been interested in the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic and other severely ill people. For 12 years, he served as medical director of a public partial hospitalization program in suburban Chicago, for which the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill gave him an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award in 1992.

 

For the last four years he has been the responsible of the Chicago Circle of EFQ, which he helped found. He is currently helping to complete an English translation of "Traiter la psychose."

He received psychoanalytic training at the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago and psychiatric training at the University of Illinois Hospitals in Chicago. In 1973, while an assistant professor at Rush Medical School in Chicago, the psychiatric residents named him teacher-of-the-year. He is a life-member of the American Psychiatric Association, and is an active member of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education.

In novembre 2004, he received the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educators Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic education

Each year, IFPE (International Federation for Psychoanalytical Education) recognizes several deserving recipients who have distinguished themselves in educating candidates and students of psychoanalysis in clinical and academic settings, representing the broadest possible array of psychoanalytic knowledge. IFPE inaugurated the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educators Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic education in 1998.

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