Isaac Marks
Isaac Meyer Marks (born 1935 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a British-South African psychiatrist. He trained in medicine in South Africa, qualifying in 1956. His training as a psychiatrist began in 1960 at the University of London (at the Bethlem-Maudsley Hospital) and was completed in 1963.[citation needed] In 1971, he was a founder Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and in 1976 he was elected a Fellow.[citation needed]
Between 1964 and 2000, he conducted clinical research at the Institute of Psychiatry,[1] University of London, and the Bethlem-Maudsley Hospital. He collaborated with the Chief Nursing Officer there, Eileen Skellern, to develop an innovative course for nurses in behavioural psychotherapy, which started in 1973.[2] He became Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Institute in 1968, and Professor of Experimental Psychopathology in 1978. In 2000, he became Professor Emeritus.[citation needed]
From 2000-2003, he ran a computer-aided self-help clinic at Imperial College, London, where he was a visiting professor. He is now also honorary professor at the Free University of Amsterdam.[citation needed]
Marks' research included the treatment of anxiety, phobic, obsessive-compulsive and sexual disorders; interactions between drugs and behavioral psychotherapy; development of a nurse behavioral psychotherapist training program (in relation to which he coined the term 'barefoot therapist', modelled on Mao Zedong's term Barefoot Doctor); community care of serious mental illness; health care and cost-effectiveness evaluation; and electroshock conversion therapy.[3] He has developed computer aids both to evaluate treatment outcome and for self-help - matters which continue to be a central interest.
He was also instrumental in the creation of the self-help organisation Triumph Over Phobia and was a founding member of the BABCP.[citation needed] He is married to Shula Marks.
Writings
[edit | edit source]- Living with Fear: Understanding and Coping with Anxiety (1978) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Cure and Care of Neuroses (1988) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Practice of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (foreword) (1991) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Hands-on Help: Computer-aided Psychotherapy (2007) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Fears, Phobias, and Rituals: Panic, Anxiety, and Their Disorders (1987) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Portrait of Isaac Marks unveiled Annabel Ferriman BMJ 2003;326:784, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ David H. Russell, ‘Skellern, (Flora) Eileen (1923–1980)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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