Anthony M. Benis: Wikis

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Anthony M. Benis (born February 14, 1939) is a retired American physician, and is the creator of the NPA Personality theory, which itself derives from the work of psychiatrist Karen Horney.

Early life

The second of two children, Antoni Marcin Benis was born in Warsaw to a prominent family. His grandfather was a professor of law at the Jagiellonian University, aswell as a member of Poland's economic delegation to the Versailles conference of 1919. His father (Antoni August) acheived a doctorate of law, and had served in the Polish lancers, while his mother was a graduate of a school of drama within Warsaw and had a short career in acting prior to marriage.

The family exited Poland at the beginning of the Second World War, in the midsts of the German blitzkrieg. They escaped just a single day before the border was closed. The family traveled through Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal. It was from Portugal that the family secured a journey by sea to the United States. Upon arrival, the family settled within New York City. Though close to penniless having left behind most belongings in Poland, the family gradually gained wealth, with Anthony's father becoming a successful financial consultant.

Education

Anthony Benis first attended Princeton University, from 1956 to 1960, and studied for a B.S. . It was during his final undergraduate year that Benis was admitted to the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa soceity. Benis then began his postgraduate study at MIT, where he studied for a M.S. , and a Sc.D.. Upon completing of his postgraduate study, he set off for the United Kingdom to take up a postdoctoral position at Cambridge University. In 1966, he moved to France to continue his post-doc work at the University of Nancy. Also during this year, he took up a post as Russian translator and editor of Current Soviet papers of Interest to chemical engineers, one which he held for fourteen years. His postdoctoral work was finally completed at Columbia University in 1970, followed by a two year term as an assistant professor at Columbia.

In 1972 Benis started an M.D. at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Upon completion of this course in 1976 he commenced his career in medicine.

Over his time as a student and researcher, Benis became the recipient of awards and honors, including the Regional Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, membership of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Soceity, the French Government's Fellowship Award (DGRST), and the NIH's Career Development Award. He also produced numerous publications regards seminars and other written works pertaining to chemical engineering and medicine.

Career

Benis commenced his career with an internship at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Upon it's conclusion in 1977, he began work as a Clinical Assistant and Adjunct Assistant Attending within Mount Sinai Hospital's department of surgery. Soon after these appointments, in 1978, he became Associate Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive care unit, again at Mount Sinai, before being promoted to Director of that unit in 1987. It was during the 1980s that Anthony Benis developed the NPA Personality Theory upon being increasingly interested in the impact of genetics upon persons individual persona.

NPA Personality Theory

Main Article: NPA Personality Theory

The NPA theory of personality was developed on principles set out by psychiatrist Karen Horney. Horney;s model posits that human persona is based upon three behavioural traits; Narcissism (N), Perfectionism (P), and Aggression (A). Combinations of these three traits in turn leads to the composition of a person's NPA character profile. Benis postulated that the traits present are determined by a single gene within an individual's genome, following rules set out by Mendelian genetics. While traits N and/or A are vital to a person's parasympathetic nervous system, the trait P acts as a mediator between traits N and A. It is believed to influence the other two traits via the central nervous system. The proposed NPA Personality Theory was set out in Anthony Benis's 1985 book; Toward Self and Sanity: On the Genetic Origins of the Human Character. Benis also reinforced his theory in a 1990 article, the article is available to read online here.

Later Career

After the creation of NPA theory Benis continued to work within Mount Sinai hospital. In 1992 he also joined the publication "Speculations in Science & Technology" as a member of it's editorial board. As a senior practitioner of medicine he also was a member of the Physicians Advisory Task Force, and chaired several commitees within the Mount Sinai hospital namely; Intensive care, Respiratory care and Infection control. He also acted as an advisor to first year medical students. From 1995 onwards he worked as Surgical director at the Cardiac care center of Guggenheim Pavilion, a modern expansion of Mount Sinai hospital completed during 1992.

Retirement

Anthony Benis retired in 2001, upon which time he directed his interests back to NPA theory. He also commenced an investigation of the NPA profiles of individual members of European royalty. More recently, this investigation has expanded to include more figures historical and modern, such as persons within the entertainment industry, politicians etc. Since 2004 he has maintained a website containing information regards the NPA theory, and in [2005] created an online NPA personality test, which attempts to diagnose those taking it their specific NPA type. He is presently remarried and living in New York, having fathered four children.