Drozdstoj Stoyanov
Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Fall Term 2009
Continuous Study on the Scientification Project in Psychiatry

Drozdstoj (Drossi) Stoyanov was born on July, 20th 1980 in Sofia, Bulgaria in the family of outstanding psychiatrists. He graduated from the high school at the age of 15 (1996), and received his MD from the Medical University of Sofia at the age of 21 (2002). Drossi developed and defended a PhD thesis in the field of history and philosophy of neuroscience in 2005 and was elected associate professor of medical psychology in 2008. In December 2007 Drossi Stoyanov was certified by the Government Specialty Board with the rank of Psychiatrist. He is also co-founder of the Balkan Association of History and Philosophy of Medicine (2005) as well as the Balkan Academy for Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology (2007). He designed the peer-reviewed project for the establishment of the first University Centre in Philosophy and Mental Health in South-Eastern and Central Europe, endorsed by the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry: www.inpponline.org. The Centre organized two consequent events with international participation in the field in 2008 and 2009. Drossi Stoyanov was invited at the discretion of the Chair into the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2007 and received a grant for post graduate training in Philosophy of Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom.

Currently he is appointed associate professor in the Department of Health Care Management in the University of Medicine, Plovdiv, Deputy Director and Scientific Secretary of the Academic Board of the Centre for Philosophy and Mental Health, Psychiatrist in the State Psychiatric Hospital “St. Ivan Rilski”, Ministry of Health.

His major interests are in the field of the critical epistemology and especially the scientific validity of the methods and categories in psychology and psychiatry. He published and/or edited over 65 papers, three monographs and a textbook of psychology.

Drossi’s hobbies are the classical music from the period of the Romantics, arts, poetry and history. He loves horse riding and skiing in his leisure. He is engaged to his partner Ilyana, scientific research fellow in cardiology.