Background
ROZENSHTEYN, Lev was born in 1884. Son of a physician.
ROZENSHTEYN, Lev was born in 1884. Son of a physician.
1908 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
1906 exiled from Odessa for political activities. After graduate, intern, Vice-President Serbskiy’s Psychiatric Clinic. 1911-1913 assistant professor, Psychiatric Clinic, Moscow Higher Women's Courses.
1914 proposed establishment of out-patient centers for treatment of alcoholics. Foreign a number of years worked with P.B. Gannushkin and associated with group of psychiatrists running journal “Sovremennaya psikhiatriya”. 1924-1935 founder-director, first Soviet out-patient center for treatment of nervous and mental diseases (Institute of Neuropsychiatric Prophylaxis), Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Health.
1930 represented Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics at 1st International Congress on Mental Health, Washington. 1930 vice-president, International Committee on Mental Health. From 1931 head, Chair of Psychiatry, Centr Institute of Postgraduate Medical Training.
Moscow; 1931 elected chairman, Commission for the Reconstruction of the Psychiatric Service, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Health. Did major research on psychiatric methods. Advocated a combined nosological and psychopathological approach to description and interpretation of mental phenomena.
Made a special study of role of external factors in development of mental disease and investigated development and prevention of occupational mental dieseases. Helped to formulate legislation on mental illness. Wrote some 100 works.
Religion is bad because it imposes irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Individuals have rights to express freedom if it safeguarde the interests of a collective.
Communist Party member from 1931.