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Joanna Antonina Flatau (4 February 1928 – 19 April 1999) was a Polish psychiatrist who developed innovative techniques for treating nervous disorders and established psychiatry services for Warsaw students.
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Joanna Antonina Flatau (4 February 1928 – 19 April 1999) was a Polish psychiatrist who developed innovative techniques for treating nervous disorders and established psychiatry services for Warsaw students.
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Life Joanna was one of two daughters of the well-known Polish neurologist Edward Flatau. She described her early initiation into psychiatry: "Mr. Maurycy Bornsztajn was a psychoanalyst who worked, at the beginning of the war, in our Warsaw apartment. I lay near the door and eavesdropped on his conversations with patients. These were fascinating lessons in psychiatry." During World War II she participated in the Warsaw Uprising and afterward was transported to work in the Wiener Holtzwerke factory. She wrote in her diary: "I remember a powerful, overwhelming nostalgia for Warsaw. In my dreams I walked down Marszalkowska Street toward Plac Zbawiciela (Savior Square), it would rain, and I would wake all in tears. This dream recurred often." From 1946 to 1952 she studied at Warsaw Medical School, graduating on 22 December 1952. Her friend, surgeon Maciek Grochowicz, has said: "Several years after the terrible destruction of the Second World War, I met Joanna and I knew about her sufferings, life-threatening situations, and work in the forced labor factory during the War, but wonderful, optimistic part of her character enabled her to become reborn, open to the future, and full of happiness and enjoyment of life. My recollections of our…