Question: What psychiatrist both served as a chair of the department of psychiatry and wrote a book about reincarnation research studies?

John F. McDermott is an American psychiatrist who lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.  He is married to Sarah McDermott, and has two children - a boy named John F., III and a girl named Elizabeth C.  He attended Cornell University and New York Medical College.  He did his residency in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at the University of Michigan's Medical Center and Henry Ford Hospital and became a tenured professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  In 1969 he moved with his family to Hawaii where he founded and served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii’s John a Burns School of Medicine for 25 years.  He has published twelve books, 150 peer reviewed scientific articles and contributed to a number of books and magazines, such as the "New York Times Magazine" and "Parents Magazine".  Some of his books include “Childhood Psychopathology: an anthology of basic readings”, “People and Cultures of Hawaii: A Psychocultural Profile”, and “Raising Cain (and Abel too): The Parents Book of Sibling Rivalry”, which was praised for being easy for parents to understand.  Andres Martin helped to create a mentorship program at the Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for assistant editors in residence named after McDermott.  He has participated in multiple organizations in the Hawaii area, including the Hawaii Opera Theater and the Hawaii Association for Children with Learning Disabilities. <SEP> European Cases of the Reincarnation Type is a 2003 book by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, who conducted research into claims of reincarnation.  The work focuses on different reincarnation research case studies in a Western setting.  It was Stevenson's last book before he died in 2007. <SEP> Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born U.S. psychiatrist.  He worked for the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years, as chair of the department of psychiatry from 1957 to 1967, Carlson Professor of Psychiatry from 1967 to 2001, and Research Professor of Psychiatry from 2002 until his death. <SEP> Armando Favazza (born 1941 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American author and psychiatrist best known for his studies of cultural psychiatry, deliberate self-harm, and religion.  Favazza's "Bodies Under Siege: Self-mutilation in Culture and Psychiatry" (1987) was the first psychiatric book on this topic.  His 2004 work, "PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion, and the Holy Book" presents objective data regarding commonly held misconceptions about the Bible as a whole as well as its major passages.  In Kaplan and Sadock's "Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry" he has written the chapter on "Anthropology and Psychiatry" in the 3rd edition (1980), the 4th edition (1985) and the 8th edition (2005), as well as the chapter on "Spirituality and Psychiatry" in the 9th edition (2009).  He has published two cover articles in the "American Journal of Psychiatry": "Foundations of Cultural Psychiatry" [135:293-303,1978] and "Modern Christian Healing of Mental Illness" [139:728-735,1982].  In 1979 he co-founded The Society for the Study of Culture and Psychiatry.