Background
OZERETSKIY, Nikolay was born in 1893 in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Province.
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Nikolay Ivanovich OZERETSKIY
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1911-1912 studied at Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy, from which he was expelled for involvement in student strikes. 1917 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
Career
Intern, then assistant professor, Institute of Child and Adolescent Welfare. From 1929 professor and head, Chair of Child Psychopathology, Herzen Teachers’ Training Institute, Leningrad. From 1933 head Chair of Child Psychiatry, then 2nd Chair of Psychiatry, 1st Leningrad Medical Institute.
1942 worked in Kislovodsk and then founded and directed a medical Institute in Krasnoyarsk during evacuation from Leningrad. From 1943 until death head, Chair of Psychiatry, 1st Leningrad Medical Institute. Devised widely-used method of studying the psychomotor system.
Developed metric scale for the Study of the motor system in children and adolescents which has been translated into most European languages. Made valuable contributions to forensic psychiatry with his studies on the effect of epilepsy, schizophrenia, encephalitis, neuroses and psychopathy on the behavior of children and adolescents. Also did research on the treatment and rehabilitation of neurotics and psychopaths and studied mental disturbances resulting from alimentary dystrophy and hypertonia.
Wrote some 70 works.
Religion
Religion is bad because it makes people base the way they run their lives on a falsehood.
Views
Individuals have rights to express freedom if it safeguarde the interests of a collective.
Membership
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences from 1948.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics