Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin

GANNUSHKIN, Pyotr Borisovich (born in 1875), professor of psychiatry at the First Moscow State University. He graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University. He received his specialized education at the psychiatric clinic of the same university, where he also began his medical career as a clinical assistant. He worked repeatedly at the Kraepelin clinic in Munich. In 1906, he left

the psychiatric clinic, and in 1911, he also left the ranks of the privat-docents of Moscow University in connection with the suppression of the university by the Minister of Public Education Kasso. From 1908 to 1914, he worked as an intern at the Alexeyev Psychiatric Hospital (now the Kashchenko Hospital) in Moscow. In 1918, he won a competitive appointment to the chair of psychiatry at the First Moscow State University. He devoted much time to social-psychiatric work. Together with a number of other psychiatrists, he organized the journal "Sovremennaya Psikhiatriya" (Modern Psychiatry) in 1907, on the pages of which he devoted much attention to organizational-psychiatric issues. Gannushkin participated in the organization of the "Russian Union of Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists," and in the final years of its existence, he was the chairman of its board. His main scientific works include the monograph "Acute Paranoia" (Moscow, 1904), a number of articles devoted to borderline states, works on epilepsy, acquired psychiatric disability, etc.; as early as 1914, he published an article on the schizophrenic constitution; the article remained untranslated into foreign languages, yet it definitively posed a whole series of questions that were debated in foreign literature only several years later.