1. Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin was a Russian psychiatrist who developed one of the first theories of psychopathies known today as personality disorders.
34 Facts About Pyotr Gannushkin
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Pyotr Gannushkin was a student of Sergei Korsakoff and Vladimir Serbsky.
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Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin was born in the Russian Empire in 1875 in the village of Novosyolki in the Pronsk district of the Ryazan Governorate.
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Pyotr Gannushkin's father Boris was a physician, a compassionate and precise man.
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An excellent student, Pyotr Gannushkin was always sociable, honest, and inclined to irony; he nursed a dislike for severe discipline.
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Gannushkin's sister Maria noted in her memoirs that Pyotr never told anyone which profession he intended to pursue.
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In 1893 Pyotr Gannushkin graduated from the high school with a gold medal, the highest award, and entered the department of medicine at Moscow State University.
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All the students, including Pyotr Gannushkin, were fascinated by the way Korsakoff interacted with the mentally disabled.
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Pyotr Gannushkin turned down a proposal to become a permanent resident physician, because it then included superintendent's responsibilities.
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Pyotr Gannushkin worked in the outpatient clinic and wrote a variety of scholarly works.
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In 1902, at the suggestion of Sukhanov, Serbsky, and Rossolimo, Pyotr Gannushkin was made a full member of the Moscow Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists.
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In 1904, Pyotr Gannushkin submitted his thesis on "Acute paranoia".
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Finally Pyotr Gannushkin gave a brilliant exposition of his own findings about paranoia.
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In 1905, Pyotr Gannushkin attended courses in postgraduate psychiatry at Kraepelin's clinic in Munich.
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In 1908 and in 1911 Pyotr Gannushkin again attended postgraduate psychiatry courses at Kraepelin's clinic.
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In 1911, together with other progressive scholars and scientists, Pyotr Gannushkin left the university in protest.
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In 1917, after being discharged from the army for health reasons, Pyotr Gannushkin returned in the Moscow Alexeyev Psychiatric Hospital.
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Pyotr Gannushkin was one of the first psychiatrists to talk about the schizoid reaction type, the somatogenic and psychogenic reactions of schizoids.
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Pyotr Gannushkin was interested in psychoanalytical ideas, and made experimental use of psychoanalytic therapy.
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Not a committed proponent of Freud's theory, Pyotr Gannushkin did believe that under certain conditions psychoanalytical methods could be used as part of the process of treatment.
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Pyotr Gannushkin regarded war and revolution as a "traumatic epidemic" affecting the entire population.
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Pyotr Gannushkin helped to organise a network of psychoneurological out-patient clinics in the USSR.
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Pyotr Gannushkin worked on issues linked to the teaching of psychiatry and the prevention of mental illness.
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Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin married the pianist Sofia Vladimirovna Klumova.
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Pyotr Gannushkin was a modest and diffident man and he disliked public speaking.
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Pyotr Gannushkin recorded each new thought and accurately gathered all required materials.
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Pyotr Gannushkin had many followers, among who it is possible to distinguish three generations.
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Together, Pyotr Gannushkin's followers made significant contributions to the development of psychiatry in Russia.
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Pyotr Gannushkin was immortalised in fiction as Professor Titanushkin, a character in Ilf and Petrov's satirical novel The Little Golden Calf.
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Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin divided psychiatry into two principal categories: major psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, etc.
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In Manifestations of psychopathies: statics, dynamics, systematic aspects, Pyotr Gannushkin distinguished two types of pathological development: constitutional and situational.
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Pyotr Gannushkin did not consider psychopathies to be progressive mental states and contrasted them with serious mental disorders that caused retardation.
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Pyotr Gannushkin delineated the three main signs of behavioral pathology that underlie psychopathies:.
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Some elements of Pyotr Gannushkin's typology were later incorporated into a theory developed by Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko, another Russian psychiatrist interested in personality disorders together with their milder forms, the "accentuations of character".