Silvano Arieti

Silvano Arieti (June 28, 1914 in Pisa, Italy – August 7, 1981 in New York City) was a psychiatrist regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on schizophrenia.

from the University of Pisa and left Italy soon after, due to the increasingly antisemitic racial policies of Benito Mussolini.

He was also training analyst in the Division of Psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute, and editor of the six-volume American Handbook of Psychiatry.

Childhood anxieties and psychological experiences by the child were considered a primary cause of later-age development of schizophrenia.

[3] Silvano Arieti is remembered as an intellectual giant who devoted his life to the care of the most seriously mentally ill.[4] Silvano Arieti is frequently erroneously associated with the anti-psychiatry movement, but this is a misconception, as he himself was never part of the movement, and in fact disapproved of the views of R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz regarding schizophrenia.