„Избрах да стана лекарка, без да осъзнавам, че ще се срещам със страданието на хората. По-късно – и досега – това ме мотивира да не спирам да се уча“ Д-р Маргарита Шойлекова и доц. д-р Игнат Петров в разговор с Анелия Касабова и Кристина Попова

Абстракт

Margarita Shoylekova (b. 1945) and Ignat Petrov (b. 1937) are a family of psychiatrists whose professional careers unfolded during a period of significant changes in psychiatric therapies. New psychiatric techniques and treatments were employed, and later abandoned, including insulin coma therapy, sleep therapy, sulfonazine therapy and other. In Bulgaria child psychiatry became institutionalized. Of decisive importance was the increasingly strong introduction of psychiatric medications (antipsychitics/neuroleptics). Dr. Margarita Shoylekova is a child psychiatrist and one of the first specialists in anorexia in Bulgaria, while Prof. Dr. Ignat Petrov is among the founders of Bulgarian gerontology in the 1960-es. The conversation addresses their personal experiences as professionals during a crucial period in Bulgarian psychiatry under state socialism and after its end.