Grunya Yefimovna Sukhareva was a Soviet child psychiatrist.
11 Facts About Grunya Sukhareva
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Grunya Sukhareva was the first to publish a detailed description of autistic symptoms in 1925.
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Grunya Sukhareva's name was transliterated as "Ssucharewa" when her papers appeared in Germany, and the autism researcher Hans Asperger likely chose not to cite her work, due to his affiliation with the Nazi Party and her Jewish heritage.
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Grunya Sukhareva was born in Kyiv to the Jewish family of Chaim Faitelevich and Rachil Iosifovna Grunya Sukhareva.
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Grunya Sukhareva studied autistic children, and described them in a way which has been compared to the modern description of autism in the DSM-5.
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Grunya Sukhareva helped open schools for autistic children where they participated in multiple activities, such as gymnastics, drawing, and woodwork.
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In 1935, Grunya Sukhareva founded a Faculty of Pediatric Psychiatry in the Central Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education.
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Grunya Sukhareva believed that for personality disorders to appear in children and teenagers, a significant social factor was required.
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Grunya Sukhareva was a pioneer in using the method of suggestion, and fought for children's rights, stating that difficult children should not be sent to prisons, but to medical institutions.
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Grunya Sukhareva studied PTSD from war injuries sustained by children.
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In 1926 then 1927, Grunya Sukhareva described six boys and five girls, as having what is considered autism.