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Hans Steiner

Hans Steiner (June 27, 1946 – October 17, 2022) was an Austrian-born American professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, child and adolescent psychiatry and human development at Stanford University, School of Medicine. In 2010 he was awarded Lifetime Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association.

As an emeritus professor, he continued to teach and research and maintained a selective private practice in Palo Alto.

Steiner advocated the developmental psychopathology and developmental psychiatry perspective within psychiatry. He worked in the subfields of aggression, its normal and abnormal development; disruptive behavior disorders (such as conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder); eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa); trauma-related psychopathology (acute stress disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder, resilience); the overlap between psychiatric and other medical disorders (somatoform disorders, medical trauma); personality development across the life span, and sports psychology. Provided by Wikipedia