Erik Thys Belgium

Erik Thys is a psychiatrist at UPC KU Leuven and Psycho-Social Centre Ixelles (Brussels). He holds a PhD on creativity, psychological vulnerability, and stigma, and is the chair of the non-profit organisation KAOS. Thys is also an active visual artist and teaches at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts. He is the author of numerous scientific publications, psycho-educational graphic novels, and the books Psychogenocide (EPO, 2015), on the mass murder of psychiatric patients under the Nazi regime, and Verrukkelijke verraders (EPO, 2023), about a glamorous Brussels couple who collaborated with the Nazis.