Background
OSIPOV, Viktor was born on November 12, 1871 in Saint St. Petersburg.
OSIPOV, Viktor was born on November 12, 1871 in Saint St. Petersburg.
1895 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy.
After graduate assistant to Professor V. M. Bekhterev, Chair of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy. 1898 defended doctor’s thesis on contractions of the stomach, intestines and urinary bladder during epileptic attacks. 1899 sent abroad to work and study under Krepclin, Munch, Nissel, Oppenheim and Mechnikov.
1901-1906 associate professor, from 1906 professor of psychiatry, Kazan’ University. From 1915 head, Chair of Psychiatry, Petrograd (Leningrad) Military Medical Academy. 1929-1947 director, Bekhterev State Brain Institute.
Did extensive research on psychiatry, much of which is still valid. Correlated Pavlov’s theory to psychiatry in general. Refuted the “metasyphilitic” theory of progressive paralysis and interpreted this disease as a late-stage syphilitic psychosis.
Studied somatic and endocrinal disturbances in manic-depressive psychosis and proved that certain cases of dypsomania are related to this disease. Did research on military psyhiatry during World War 1. During World War 2 studied the clinical aspects of closed brain trauma, traumatic neurosis and military medical expertise.
Chairman, Leningrad Social of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists. Honorary member, various sci society Foundcr-chairman, Pedological Social (later banned).
Chairman, Physicians’ Trade Union. Deputy, Leningrad City Social. Member, State Learned Council.
Member, All-Union Association of Sciences and Technical Workers for the Advancement of Socialist Construction. Member, editorial board, periodical “Vrachebnaya gazeta”. Chief ed, “Malaya entsiklopediya prakticheskoy meditsiny” (Small Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine) (4 volume, 1927-1930).
Wrote 190 works.
Major religious moral codes dehumanise individuals outside their group as less worthy. Results can vary from discrimination to genocide.
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1939. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences from 1944. Communist Party member from 1939.