page_title: Pyotr Gannushkin
section_title: Formative Years
hierarchical_section_title: Pyotr Gannushkin / Formative Years
caption_attribution_description: Алексей Яковлевич Кожевников/ Alexis Yakovlievich Kozhevnikov (1836-1902)
context_page_description: Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin was a Russian psychiatrist who developed one of the first theories of psychopathies known today as personality disorders. He was a student of Sergei Korsakoff and Vladimir Serbsky. Not only did he manage to delineate certain organizational tasks of social psychiatry, but he also clearly formulated the main methodological aim of social psychiatrists, to combine methods of individual clinical analysis with sociological research and generalization.
caption: A pioneer of Russian psychiatry and advocate of humane treatment of the mentally insane, Aleksei Kozhevnikov founded the Moscow Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists in 1890. "Kozhevnikov's epilepsy," also known as epilepsia partialis continua, is named after him.
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