Yury Kannabikh

KANNABIKH, Yury Vladimirovich (born 1872), a prominent psychiatrist. Upon graduating from the Faculty of Natural Sciences (1896) and the Medical Faculty (1899) of Moscow University, he worked under the direction of A. Bernstein at the Central Reception Ward for the Mentally Ill in Moscow, as well as in Heidelberg and Munich. From 1910 to 1914, he took a very active part in the publication of the journal Psychotherapy (edited by Vyrubov). In 1918, he was elected privat-docent of Moscow University; in 1920, professor of psychiatry at the Central Asian University; and in 1921, professor of psychology at the Moscow Medical Institute (Higher Medical School). From 1923, Kannabikh has been delivering a course in psychotherapy at the First Moscow State University, and since 1925, minor psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Courses for the Advanced Training of Physicians of the People's Commissariat of Health at the State Scientific Institute for Neuropsychiatric Prophylaxis, where he heads the department for combating social psychopaths and psychoneuroses.

Among Kannabikh's larger works, his monograph Cyclothymia, Its Symptomatology and Course (doctoral dissertation, Moscow, 1914) is well known. Kannabikh's later works are devoted mainly to borderland states and psychotherapy. Among Kannabikh's recent works, History of Psychiatry (Moscow, 1929) should be noted. Kannabikh is a popular lecturer, frequently speaking before worker audiences with lectures and reports on socio-psychiatric and psychohygienic themes.