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Anatoliy Ivanov-SmolenskySoviet physiologist and psychiatrist
Date of Birth: 17.05.1895
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Content:
- Early Life and Education
- Wartime Service and Early Career
- Pavlovian Influence and Research
- Higher Nervous Activity Research
- World War II and Psychiatric Consultation
- Post-War Career and Research
- Death and Legacy
Early Life and Education
Alexander Grigorievich Ivanov-Smolenskywas born in 1897 in Russia. He graduated from the Petrograd Military Medical Academy in 1917.
Wartime Service and Early Career
During the Russian Civil War (1918-1920), Ivanov-Smolensky served as a doctor in the Central Red Army Hospital. In 1919, he became a senior assistant at the Pathological-Reflexological Institute founded by Vladimir Bekhterev.
Pavlovian Influence and Research
Ivanov-Smolensky later moved to Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's laboratory, where he worked during the 1920s. He also studied psychiatry under Vladimir Osipov at the Military Medical Academy. In 1921, he defended his dissertation, "The Development of the Doctrine of Psychasthenia and an Experience in Experimental Psychophysiological Research."
Higher Nervous Activity Research
In 1924, Ivanov-Smolensky established the first Chair of Physiology and Pathology of Higher Nervous Activity in the USSR at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. From 1931 to 1945, he headed the psychiatric clinic of Pavlov's laboratory at the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine.
World War II and Psychiatric Consultation
During World War II, Ivanov-Smolensky served as a consultant in evacuation hospitals, including in besieged Leningrad.
Post-War Career and Research
After the war, Ivanov-Smolensky became the head of the Moscow branch of the Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Pathology of Higher Nervous Activity named after Pavlov. In 1952, he became the director of the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
In his later years, Ivanov-Smolensky specialized in the study of asthenic syndrome and sexual deviations (paraphilias).
Death and Legacy
Ivanov-Smolensky died in January 1982 and is buried in the Novokuntsevo Cemetery. His "Pavlovian Wednesday Dialogues" with Pavlov and his development of the concept of "Ivanov-Smolensky syndrome" continue to be influential in psychology.
