Destination Integration: A Guide to Living Abroad, Long-term Travelling and Successful Immigration - Softcover

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Lars K. Hansen is born in Denmark in 1965. He works as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS in the UK, along with running a private practice. He writes for popular magazines, and has recently made television documentaries on various psychiatric issues (Channel 4 and the BBC). He appears regularly on BBC Radio Solent to comment on psychological topics such as relationships, happiness and self-esteem. He is also an accredited Cognitive Behavioural psychotherapist with a special interest in psychosis.Dr Hansen won the Royal College of Psychiatrists' international psychotherapy prize in 2002. His research mainly focuses on the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and differences between the EU countries' training of doctors. He has written over 40 scientific articles and a number of chapters in psychiatric textbooks. In 2004 he was awarded a doctorate of medicine by the University of Southampton. He reviews articles and books for academic journals, and has presented his work at numerous meetings and conferences around the world.During undergraduate training at Copenhagen Medical School he spent a gap year in New Zealand as a professional tennis coach. After graduating and spending a few years working in Copenhagen hospitals, he left Denmark to spend 18 months in France, first at the Sorbonne University and then as a junior doctor in a Parisian Hospital. He has worked as a village GP in Norway four times for shorter periods of time during the 1990s. In 1996 he moved from Paris to England, where he trained to become a consultant psychiatrist.