Vladimir Nikolayevich Myasishchev

Vladimir Myasishchev
Born	10 July 1893(1893-07-10) Latvia, Russian Empire
Died	4 October 1973(1973-10-04) (aged 80) Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet
Fields	Psychology Medical Psychology
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute
Influences	Vladimir Bekhterev
Influenced	Aleksandr Fedorovich Lazurskiy

Vladimir Nikolayevich Myasishchev (Russian: Влади'мир Никола'евич Мяси'щев; 10 July 1893 – 04 October 1973) was a famous Soviet psychologist and developmental psychologist.

Biography

Myasishchev was born in Latvia, in judge family. He studied at Saint Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute (graduated in 1919). Director of the Psychoneurological Institute in 1939-1961. In 1944-1973 professor of Leningrad [Saint Petersburg]University, where he was instrumental in establishing the Faculty of Psychology. Follower of the traditions of V. Bekhterev's school.

Scientific work

In 1914 Myasishchev published his first scientific article. He researched microstructural changes to brain tissue accompanied by functional impairment of its activity. His research encompasses problems of Psychopathology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Medical Psychology. Proposed the term "systemic neuroses" describing diseases conditioned by reactive psychogenetic factors to which the patient's personality reacts with disturbances that are fixated and intensified in the future. Researched borderline states and their treatment, sought to distinguish them from neuroses, studied the problem of norm, psychosomatic health and its restoration. In 1948 posed the problem of relations as conscious selective contacts of a person with the material and social milieu determining the person's mental characteristics and qualities and actualizing it the person's activity. In 1960 he developed common works of relations problem. Relationship Psychology deals with conscious attitude of a person towards his environment and himself ensuring synthetic and dynamic understanding of personality as oneness of subject and object.

Books

• Myasishchev, V. N. (1960). Personality and Neuroses. 
• Myasishchev, V. N.. Psychological Attributes of Personality" (Volume I, "Character", and Volume II, "Abilities") (in collab. with A. Kovalyov), 1957-1960. 
• Myasishchev, V. N. (1966). Introduction to Medical Psychology. 

See also

• Vladimir Bekhterev

External links

• Myasishchev Vladimir Nikolaevich at encspb.ru
• Myasishchev V.N. at hilarygray.btinternet.co.uk
• V.N. Myasischev at bekhterev.spb.ru

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Name	Myasishchev, Vladimir
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Date of birth	10 July 1893
Place of birth	Latvia, Russian Empire
Date of death	04 October 1973
Place of death	Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union