Dr. med. Hans Steiner
Academic Appointments
- Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Key Documents
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Child Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic 401 Quarry Rd MC 5719 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 723-5511 Fax (650) 723-5531Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 723-5511Alternate Contact Direct Line Tel Work (650)-723-5507Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- Eating Disorders
- Child Psychiatry
- Disruptive Behavior
- Psychiatry
Administrative Appointments
- Founding Member, Pegasus Physycians at Stanford (2008 - present)
Honors and Awards
- Lifetime Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association (2010)
- Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association (2003)
- Fellow, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1987)
- Fellow, American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (1990)
- Outstanding Mentor Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1990-3 , 1995-6, 1998-9, 2004)
- Dlin/Fischer Award for Significant Achievement in Clinical Research, American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (1990)
Professional Education
| Residency: | State University of New York NY (1976) |
| Board Certification: | Child Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1981) |
| Board Certification: | Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1979) |
| Residency: | University of Michigan MI (1978) |
| Internship: | State University of New York NY (1974) |
| Medical Education: | University of Vienna, Austria (1972) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Community and International Work
- Mental Health in Unaccompanied Minor Refugees, Vienna, Austria
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Dr. Steiner's predominant interest is the application of Humanistic principles to the practice of Medicine and Psychiatry.
He is a founding member of the PEGASUS PHYSICIANS at Stanford, a working group of Stanford physicians who write creatively. The group meets monthly and dscusses writing proposals, poetry, novels and trade books in progress. Members of the group have an extensive publication record. The group meets monthly to discuss each others projects. The group is open to physicians who write creatively, including medical students. We usually ask prospective members to send a writing sample of untdetermined length. The group can be reached by e mailing Dr. Steiner at Stanford or via his private website at: www.hanssteiner.com.
Dr. Steiner's research is based on developmental approaches to psychopathology which emphasize the conjoint study of normative and non-normative phenomena, and the complex interaction of biological, psychological and social variables in the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.These principles are amply evident in his latest Handbook of Developmental Psychiatry published by World Scientific and Imperial College Press (2011)
He has published extensively on the details of this model and has applied it to the study of normal and abnormal aggression, responses to stress and traumatic events, and the mental processes helping people adjust to adversity across the life span.
He is currently investigating the application of psycholinguistic methods to measure conscious and unconscious mental states, especially emotions and self regulation. He is using computerized text analytic techniques to characterize referential activity, emotional expression, event specific memories and the reconstituting and healing effects of oral and written emotional expression.
He is studying non-clinical and clinical populations with these methods. He is studying non-clinical adults and adolescents. He is studying clinical cohorts diagnosed with trauma related psychopathology, disruptive behavior and attention deficit, maladaptive aggression, eating disorders and other syndromes which present with complex combinations of psychosomatic and somatopsychic illness ( e.g. pain disorders, anxiety disorders, medical traumatization, somatization disorders etc.)
Publications
- Psychopathology in African unaccompanied refugee minors in Austria. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2011; (3): 307-19
- Psychopathology, trauma and delinquency: subtypes of aggression and their relevance for understanding young offenders. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2011: 21
- Psychosocial background in incarcerated adolescents from Austria, Turkey and former Yugoslavia. Psychiatry Res. 2011; (1-2): 193-9
- Symptomatic response to divalproex in subtypes of conduct disorder. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2011; (5): 584-93
- Adaptive styles in elite collegiate athletes: The role of activation and self-regulation" Personality and Mental Health. 2010
- Divalproex sodium-ER in outpatients with disruptive behavior disorders: a three month open label study. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2010; (3): 274-84
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