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Life and work of doc. Jaroslav Skála: psychotherapeutic and healing methods and their extent to contemporary addictology
Pilcová, Karolína ; Šejvl, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Radimecký, Josef (referee)
Background: Jaroslav Skála was a Czech physician, psychiatrist, and, as he later stated, an alcohologist. He specialized not only in the field of alcoholism treatment but also in curing addictions to other substances. He graduated The Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and later devoted his life to helping and healing alcohol addicts and the ones addicted to other substances. He is a co-founder of KLUS and in 1948 he founded Apolinar anti-alcoholic division in Prague. Later, in 1951, he founded detoxification (sobering-up) centre. Throughout his whole life, he focused on psychotherapy and education in the field of medicine and psychotherapy. Aim: Aim of this thesis is to abundantly study and describe life and professional career of doc. Skála. Focusing especially on the beginnings of Apolinar centre and Apolinar treatment model. Furthermore, the aim is to focus on therapeutical treatment methods - their beginnings and development with implications towards present. The thesis focuses on innovations he brought into the study of addictology, innovations regarding attitude towards patients and addictions treatment holistically. In the last part, this thesis focuses on legacy he left and how doc. Skála contributed towards the development of addictology in addition to information about which...
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