The well-known child psychologist, psychotherapist and forensic expert Radek Ptáček, whose family had been missing since Sunday and worried about his life and health, has died. The Central Bohemian police announced a search for him today and in the evening on website she wrote that the wanted forty-eight-year-old man was found in Prague without signs of life in the afternoon.
The man left by car on Sunday afternoon, saying he was going to work, but he did not return home, said Central Bohemian police spokeswoman Michaela Richterová. “The missing person sent several messages to his wife that sounded like goodbyes, and for this reason there is a reasonable fear for his life and health,” she added.
“Unfortunately, the search for a missing 48-year-old man has come to a sad end. The man was found this afternoon in Prague, unfortunately without signs of life,” the police announced in the evening.
The police were looking for the psychologist Ptáček. Photo: Police of the Czech Republic
Radek Ptáček was a Czech clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, forensic expert and professor of medical psychology. He specialized in, among other things, child psychology and forensic psychology. He worked at the University of New York in Prague and the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine, UK. In 2018, he became the first professor in the Czech Republic in the field of medical psychology.
The psychologist was also quite active on social networks, participating in many interviews (most recently a few days ago with Čestmír Strakatý). On Sunday evening, about an hour and a half after the family reported last seeing him, a status was posted on his Facebook profile in which he said: “If I had to say, after 25 years in psychology, what’s in life important? Love, love, love… nothing else really. Take care of relationships, because only relationships will give you a good life.”
