Relationship of resilience to personality temperament and character factors in systemic autoimmune disorders (SLE, RA, SSC)

Director of the Department of Personality-, Developmental-, and Clinical Psychology at University of Pécs
Research interest:
Temperament and character theories in personality psychology
Resilience and other coping models of personality
Coping with chronic illnesses
The healthy personality (phenomenological psychology, positive psychology)
Psychoanalysis, analytic psychology and fate-analysis
The Szondi Projective Test
Psychoanalytic orientated creativity theories
The interpretation of artworks in the perspective of personality psychology
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Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Hungary

Dr. László Czirják is Professor of Rheumatology and Medicine and Head of the Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.

Author of more than 100 scientific publications, his main field of interest is the clinical, epidemiological, and immunological aspects of scleroderma. He is also actively involved in the organization of care of scleroderma patients in his country and in Europe. Besides, his department is also involved in the treatment of patients with lupus, myositis, vasculitis and Sjogren’s syndrome.

Dr. László Czirják is currently a board member of the EULAR Scleroderma Trial and Research group (EUSTAR), and vice president of the Society of the Hungarian Rheumatologists. He is also the head of the Hungarian National Board of Clinical Immunology and Allergology.

Ph.D Program, University of Pécs, Institute of Psychology, Personality Psychology , Department of Personality, Developmental and Clinical Psychology, Hungary

Lecturer, Institute of Psychology,University of Pécs,Hungary

Publications:
    * 2001: Rudolf Jara, M. Gyöngyösi, F, Iordanova, Robert Jara, M. Gottsauner-Wolf, J. Wojtek, W. Woloszczuk, G. Geyer, K. Huber: Circulating Levels of Natriuretic Peptides N-terminal and N-terminal Brain Natriuretic Peptides in Acute and Chronic Coronary Heart Disease in: Journal für Cardiology, 8 Jahrgang Suppl. E.
    * 2001: Rudolf Jara, M. Gottsauner, Wolf, M. Gyöngyösi, N. Iordanova, Robert Jara, J. Wojtek, K. Huber: N-terminal Atria Natriuretic Peptides in Acute and Chronic Coronary Heart Disease in: Journal für Cardiology 8th Jahrgang, Nr 6th
    * 2000: R. Revesz, Gy per: Face recognition: the attraction-rejection Szondi pictures of possible features of the Hungarian Psychological Review, LV.4.sz.

Dr. Nagy received his M.D. in 1991 and a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology in 1995, both from the University Medical School of Debrecen in Hungary. He did postdoctoral work in the United States with Peter Davies at the University of Texas–Houston, where he holds the title of adjunct professor, and later at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies with Ron Evans. In 1999, he received a Boehringer Ingelheim Research Award, which enabled him to return to Hungary. Dr. Nagy was elected EMBO Young Investigator in 2000 and has held a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences since 2004. He is currently professor and head of the Debrecen Clinical Genomics Center in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Debrecen, Medical and Health Science Center. Dr. Nagy is the recipient of HHMI international research scholar awards through both the Parasitology initiative and the Baltics, Central Europe, and Russia initiative.