Background
Gurevich was born on 18 September 1878 in the village of Sosnytsia, Chernigov Governorate (now Ukraine).
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Mikhail Osipovich Gurevich
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In Chernigov, he finished public school as a recipient of a gold medal for academic excellence. In 1902, he graduated from the medical faculty of the Moscow University and was left as a resident doctor of its psychiatric clinic directed by Vladimir Serbsky since 1900.
Career
Foreign his successes he was encouraged by being sent abroad where he familiarized himself with organization of psychiatric care in various countries and worked in Kraepelin’s clinic in Munich. In 1904, he began to write his doctoral thesis On Neurofibrils and Their Changes in Some Pathological Conditions under the direction of South.А. Between 1909 and 1914, Gurevich continued his anatomoclinic studies in the famous Burashevskay psychiatric colony, in Tver and Saratov.
During the First World War, he served as a doctor in army.
From 1918 to 1925, he worked for Pyotr Gannushkin as an assistant and then an assistant professor of the psychiatric clinic at the Moscow University. In the 1920s, Gurevich along with V.А.
Gilyarovsky became a pioneer of Soviet child psychiatry and published the manual Psychopathology of Childhood in 1927. Its second, considerably enlarged edition was published in 1932.
From 1929 to 1936, he was the head of a subdepartment in the Second Moscow Medical Institute.
From 1937, he was the head of the psychiatry subdepartment in the First Moscow Medical Institute. During the Second World War, Gurevich served as a consulting physician for a number of largest evacuation hospitals. In 1950 and 1951, Gurevich along with Aleksandr Smaryan and Raisa Golant became the key target of harassment during Pavlovian sessions, including the joint session held by the enlarged panel of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences and the plenum of the board of the All-Union Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists from 11 to 15 October 1951.
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Membership
In 1944, he was elected as a full member of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Russian Empire Soviet Union