Name: Tamás Zonda

Date of Birth: 28.06.1940

Place of Birth: Budapest

Studies:

• 1959-1965 Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest;
• 1985-1988 Sociology, Budapest

Places of work:

• Balassagyarmat 1965-1980 Neuro-psychiatric Department;
• Budapest, Jahn Hospital Psychiatric Department

Function:

• Head of the Psychiatric Department (1982-2005)
• Gen.Secretary of Hungarian Ass. for Suicide Prevention 1992-
• National Representative of IASP (Hungary 1996-

Specializations:

• 1969 Specialist of Neurology
• 1971 Specialist of Psychiatry

Scientific degree: Ph.D (Psychiatry) 1996

Memberships:

• 1980- Hungarian Association of Psychiatry
• 1989- International Association for Suicide Prevention
• 1992- National Representative of IASP (Hungary)
• 1992- Hungarian Association for Suicide Prevention
• 2004- International Academy of Suicide Research

Study tours:

• 1980 Univ. Clinic of Frankfurt (psychiatry)
• 1992 The Samaritans (London) (suicidology)

Co-editor-in-Chief of periodic: “Mentálhigiéne és Pszichoszomatika” (Hungarian) 1980-2003

Awards:

• Jahn Ferenc Award (1988)
• Nyírő Gyula Award (1992)
• Nyírő Gyula Award (1995)

Books:

• Zonda T. Cultural history of suicide (1991) Budapest (Pp 235);
• Zonda T. Is Hungarians a suicide nation? (1995, 2004) Budapest. (Pp 26o);
• Zonda T. Suicide, statistics, society. Budapest 2006. (Pp 218);

No. of book chapters: 7

No. of. scientific publication (articles) 66

He is also a poet and, he published two poem tomes, and he is member of Hungarian Association of Hungarian Writers.

Hobby: jazz, more than hobby: literature, cultural history.