Editing Antoni Kępiński (section)

===Auschwitz syndrome===
Due to his involvement, in the 1950s, in the rehabilitation programme for former concentration camp inmates, Kępiński may be regarded as the pioneer of the [[posttraumatic stress disorder|PTSD]] research.<ref name="schochow2016">{{cite journal|last1=Schochow|first1=Maximilian|last2=Steger|first2=Florian|title=Antoni Kepiński (1918–1972), pioneer of post-traumatic stress disorder|journal=The British Journal of Psychiatry|volume=208|issue=6|year=2016|pages=590|doi=10.1192/bjp.bp.115.168237|pmid=27251694|doi-access=free}}</ref> The idea of such research originated in the mind of Kępiński's colleague [[Stanisław Kłodziński]].<ref name="kepinski1972">{{cite book|last1=Kępiński|first1=Antoni|title=Rhythm of life (in Polish)|date=1972|publisher=Wydawnictwo Literackie|location=Kraków}}
</ref> Together with fellow researchers from the Psychiatric Clinic of the Medical Academy in Cracow they examined large number of [[Auschwitz-Birkenau]] survivors and mapped out the clinical picture of the concentration camp syndrome which they called the ''KZ-Syndrome''. As noted by psychiatrist Krzysztof Rutkowski, the same syndrome was later investigated in other countries (for example in the [[United States of America|United States]] after the [[Vietnam War]] in the 1970s), and is currently known as the [[posttraumatic stress disorder|post-traumatic stress disorder]].<ref name="jurszo2018">{{cite web|last1=Jurszo|first1=Robert|title=Syndrom obozowy mógł latami trwać uśpiony w psychice więźnia|url=https://psychiatria.mp.pl/aktualnosci/136620,syndrom-obozowy-mogl-latami-trwac-uspiony-w-psychice-wieznia|website=psychiatria.mp.pl|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref>