Gannushin

Gannushin, Peter Borisovich (born in 1875), professor of psychiatry at 1st Moscow State University. Graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University. Received specialized education at the psychiatric clinic of the same university, where he also began his medical activity as an assistant to the clinic. He worked repeatedly at the clinic of Kraepelin in Munich. In 1906 he left the psychiatric clinic, and in 1911 he also left the ranks of privat-docents of Moscow University in connection with the destruction of the university by the Minister of Public Education Kasso. From 1908 to 1914 he worked as an ordinor in the Alekseevskaya psychiatric, now named after Kashchenko, hospital in Moscow. In 1918, by competition, he took the chair of psychiatry at 1st Moscow State University. He devoted much time to socio-psychiatric work. Together with a number of other psychiatrists, he organized in 1907 the journal "Sovremennaya psikhiatriya", in the pages of which special attention was paid to organizational and psychiatric issues. G. participated in the organization of the "Russian Union of Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists", in the last years of its existence he was the chairman of its board. Main scientific works: monograph "Acute Paranoia" (Moscow, 1904), a number of articles devoted to borderline conditions, works on epilepsy, on acquired mental disability, etc.; as early as 1914 he published an article on the schizophrenic constitution; the article remained untranslated into foreign languages; it definitely raised a number of questions that were debated in foreign literature only a few years later.

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psychiatric clinic, and in 1911 he also left the ranks of privat-docents of Moscow University in connection with the destruction of the university by the Minister of Public Education Kasso. From 1908 to 1914 he worked as an ordinor in the Alekseevskaya psychiatric, now named after Kashchenko, hospital in Moscow. In 1918, by competition, he took the chair of psychiatry at 1st Moscow State University. He devoted much time to socio-psychiatric work. Together with a number of other psychiatrists, he organized in 1907 the journal "Sovremennaya psikhiatriya", in the pages of which special attention was paid to organizational and psychiatric issues. G. participated in the organization of the "Russian Union of Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists", in the last years of its existence he was the chairman of its board. Main scientific works: monograph "Acute Paranoia" (Moscow, 1904), a number of articles devoted to borderline conditions, works on epilepsy, on acquired mental disability, etc.; as early as 1914 he published an article on the schizophrenic constitution; the article remained untranslated into foreign languages; it definitely raised a number of questions that were debated in foreign literature only a few years later.