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Hans Steiner
Austrian-American professor of psychiatry
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.[1] In 2010 he was awarded Lifetime Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association.
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As an emeritus professor, he continued to teach and research and maintained a selective private practice in Palo Alto.[2][3][4]
Steiner advocated the developmental psychopathology[5][6][7][8][9] and developmental psychiatry perspective[10] within psychiatry. He worked in the subfields of aggression,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] its normal and abnormal development; disruptive behavior disorders (such as conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder,[19][20][21] attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder); eating disorders[22][23] (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa); trauma-related psychopathology (acute stress disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder, resilience); the overlap between psychiatric and other medical disorders[24] (somatoform disorders, medical trauma); personality development across the life span, and sports psychology.[25][26]