Ion Vianu

Ion Vianu (born 1934), a Romanian writer and psychiatrist, who was exiled to Switzerland in 1977. He is the son of literary critic Tudor Vianu and his wife Elena.

Ion Vianu became recognised as a radio personality for Radio Free Europe discussing attempts to use psychiatry as a political weapon. After the 1989 Revolution, he became actively involved in the reform of the system of psychiatric treatment in Romania to bring it up to world standards. Vianu, together with his friend Matei Călinescu published an autobiographical volume, "Amintiri in dialog" ("Remembrances in Dialogue").

He also wrote and published the novels "Caietele lui Ozias" (in 2004) and "Vasiliu, foi volante" (in 2006), both being part of the cycle "Arhiva trădarii şi a mâniei" ( the Archive of Treason and Wrath), dealing with Romanian society during the communist regime. He also published another two novels, "Paramnezii" (2005) and "Necredinciosul" (the Unfaithful),inspired by his practice as a psychiatrist in the Western World and a book of collected critical essays, "Blestem şi binecuvântare" ("Curse & Blessing, 2007). In 2008 he published also "Investigatii mateine", a biographical essay about the Romanian writer Matei Caragiale.

References

*ro icon [http://www.observatorcultural.ro/informatiiarticol.phtml?xid=12939&print=true Ovidiu Şimonca, "«Am vrut să fiu un martor». Interviu cu Ion Vianu", in "Observator Cultural"]