Lin Tsung-yi

Lin Tsung-yi 林宗義
Born	19 September 1920 Tainan, Taiwan
Died	20 July 2010(2010-07-20) (aged 89)
Education	University of Tokyo (MD)

Lin Tsung-yi (Taiwanese: Lîm Chong-gī, Chinese: 林宗義; pinyin: Lín Zōngyì; Wade–Giles: Lin² Tsung¹-yi⁴; 19 September 1920 – 20 July 2010) was a Taiwanese academic and educator in psychiatry.

Early life and education

Lin was born in 1920 in Tainan Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Tainan, Taiwan) to Lin Mosei and Chai-Hwang Wang. Like his parents, he studied in Japan, graduating from the School of Medicine at Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo) in 1943. He did postgraduate training at Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Psychiatry at Maudsley Hospital.

Career

Lin was Honorary President of the World Federation for Mental Health. He was a director of the psychiatric department and an adviser of psychiatric studies at the World Health Organization.

He held professorships in psychiatry at the National Taiwan University, University of Michigan, University of British Columbia. His father, Lin Mosei, was an educator and a victim of the February 28 Incident in Taiwan. In late 1980s, Lin was one of the initiators of the February 28 Incident Peace and Justice Movement.