Paul Valent – psychiatrist, author, traumatologist and violentologist –was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1938. He survived the Holocaust in Hungary and in 1949 he and his parents migrated to Australia. Valent studied medicine in Melbourne, graduated as a psychiatrist in London, then he worked in Israel where he researched the psychological effects of the Six-Day War. Back in Australia, Valent worked as a consultant psychiatrist, mostly in emergency departments at Prince Henry’s Hospital and Monash Medical Centre. He has also worked in private practice. His life’s work has been an investigation into why humans have the capacity to love but too often hurt each other.
Paul Valent
