Luciano P. R. Santiago Explained

Luciano Perez-Rivera Santiago (June 21, 1942 – February 1, 2019) was a Filipino writer, historian, and psychiatrist best known for his award-winning books on Philippine history and the arts.^[1] He was a psychiatrist by profession.

Education

Santiago was an alumnus of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in Manila. After graduating, he trained in both adult and child psychiatry at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and practiced there for a while before returning to the Philippines to be a physician at the Department of Psychiatry of The Medical City Hospital in Pasig.^{[1] [2]}

Awards

Santiago has received a number of prizes and awards for his work, including:^[1]

• The National Book Award for Art and for History (from the Manila Critics Circle),
• The Wendell Muncie Prize for Distinguished Writing in Psychiatry (from the Maryland Psychiatric Society),
• The Premio Manuel Bernabé (Primer Premio) in History (from the Centro Cultural de la Embajada de Espana),
• The Dr. Pedro Villaseñor Award for Genealogy,
• The Catholic Author Award (from the Asian Catholic Publishers)
• The Catholic Press Award (from the Archdiocese of Manila), and
• A Research Grant Award from the Toyota International Foundation.

Bibliography

• Book: Santiago . Luciano P. . The art of ancestor hunting in the Philippines . 1990 . New Day Publ . Quezon City . 978-971-10-0437-8.
• Book: Santiago . Luciano P. R. . The hidden light: the first Filipino priests . 1987 . New Day Publishers . Quezon City, Philippines . 978-971-10-0339-5.
• Book: Santiago . Luciano P. . More Pinay than we admit: the social construction of the Filipina . 2010 . Vibal Foundation . Quezon City . 9789710538126.
• Book: Santiago . Luciano P. R. . To love and to suffer: the development of the religious congregations for women in the Spanish Philippines, 1565-1898 . 2005 . Ateneo de Manila University Press . Quezon City . 9789715504782.
• Book: Santiago . Luciano P.. Children of Oedipus: Brother and Sister Incest in Psychiatry, Literature, History and Mythology . 1873 . Libra Pub . Quezon City. 978-0-87212-028-0.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Luciano P.R. Santiago – Authors – Vibal Foundation Books . January 18, 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20130416024651/http://vibalfoundation.org/books/authors/luciano-p-r-santiago/ . April 16, 2013 .
2. Web site: Treasures of Pila: Pila: The Noble Town . January 18, 2013 . April 23, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150423110038/http://treasuresofpila.bayangpinagpala.org/2005/09/pila-noble-town_12.html . dead .