Background
ASATIANI, Mikhail was born in 1882.
ASATIANI, Mikhail was born in 1882.
1907 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
After graduate, intern at psychiatric clinic, above faculty. Later worked at neuropsychiatric sanitarium near Moscow and co-ed, journal Psikhoterapiya. From 1917 assistant. Department of Psychiatry, Moscow University.
From 1921 head, Department of Psychiatry, Tbilisi University. 1925 set up Asatiani Psychiatric Research Institute in Georgia Supervised writing of more than 300 sci works.
Used theory of conditioned reflexes in psychiatry. Research directed mainly to establishing physiological bases of psychic disorders with ephasis on psychasthenia. Considered that phobias and other obsessive states derive from pathological conditioned reflexes and that psychoneuroses are a pure form of ’’psychic reactions," with the basic constructive link in the formation of any psychoneurotic complex of syptoms being the phenomenon of ’’psychophysiological plasticity”.
Being a constitutional type feature, psychophysiological plasticity enables an individual to transform ’’notions into somatic syptoms”. At any given moment the presence of a psychoneurotic symptom may be due to a unique activation of ’’traces of the association reflex type”. He reckoned that in psychoneuroses the fixation capacity in a state of emotion and reduced psychic tension has no need of a multiplicity of apposition processes - to form certain psychic links constituting pathological conditioned reflexes a single apposition is sufficient.
Religion is bad because it imposes irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.