Yudin Tikhon

YUDIN TIKHON Ivanovich (born in 1879), known Soviet psychiatrist. He studied at Moscow University, where after graduation he was an intern at the psychiatric clinic (1904-07). From 1907 to 1914 he was an intern at the Kharkov hospital on Saburova Dacha and in Moscow on Kanatchikova Dacha. After being held in German captivity (1915-1918), he returned to 1st Moscow State University, where he worked at the clinic of Professor Gannushkin. From 1924 to 1932 - professor of psychiatry in Kazan, and from September 1932 - director of the Clinical Institute of the All-Ukrainian Psychoneurological Academy and professor of the Psychoneurological Institute of the academy's faculty. A major public figure: with his participation in the prerevolutionary years, the hospital on Saburova Dacha was reorganized, transforming the latter into a model psychiatric institution; after

the revolution Yudin was in 1919-1924 a member of the presidium of the medical faculty, and in 1922 - a member of the board of 1st Moscow State University, in 1929-1932 - dean of the medical faculty of Kazan Medical Institute and chairman of the Kazan Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists, currently - vice-president of the All-Ukrainian Psychoneurological Academy. He participated in the editorial boards of several journals. From 1930 - editor and from 1933 deputy editor of the psycho-neurological department of the Great Medical Encyclopedia, from 1933 - member of the Scientific Medical Council of the People's Commissariat of Health of Ukraine. 65 scientific works by Yudin are devoted mainly to issues of heredity, psychiatric clinics, and organizational issues in psychiatry. The largest of them are the monographs "Psychopathic Constitutions" (Moscow, 1926) and "Eugenics" (Moscow, 1928).