Pyotr Gannushkin
Psychiatrist (1875-1933) · Died at 57
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Something wrong?Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin was a Russian psychiatrist who developed one of the first theories of psychopathies known today as personality disorders. He was a student of Sergei Korsakoff and Vladimir Serbsky.
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A pioneer of Russian psychiatry and advocate of humane treatment of the mentally insane, Aleksei Kozhevnikov founded the Moscow Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists in 1890. "Kozhevnikov's epilepsy," also known as epilepsia partialis continua, is named after him.
Sergei Korsakoff was known for his studies on alcoholic psychosis. He introduced the concept of paranoia and wrote an excellent textbook on psychiatry. His name is given to Korsakoff's syndrome and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
Vladimir Serbsky was one of the founders of the forensic psychiatry in Russia. Author of Forensic Psychopathology, Serbsky thought delinquency had no congenital diatheses, being the result of social causes.
Gannushkin's granddaughter Svetlana Gannushkina, mathematician and noted human rights activist.
A Moscow river embankment is named after Pyotr B. Gannushkin.About this person
Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin was a Russian psychiatrist who developed one of the first theories of psychopathies known today as personality disorders. He was a student of Sergei Korsakoff and Vladimir Serbsky. Not only did he manage to delineate certain organizational tasks of social psychiatry, but he also clearly formulated the main methodological aim of social psychiatrists, to combine methods of individual clinical analysis with sociological research and generalization.
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