“The best representative of Russian psychiatry”: Remembering Sergey Korsakov in Russian and Soviet psychiatry, 1900–1954
Published online on January 11, 2026
Abstract
History of Psychiatry, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 174-192, June 2026.
The article examines how Russian and Soviet psychiatry perceived Sergey Korsakov (1854–1900) as a founding figure of the discipline, from his death in 1900 until his centennial in 1954. Initially, contemporaries defined his posthumous image through three ...
The article examines how Russian and Soviet psychiatry perceived Sergey Korsakov (1854–1900) as a founding figure of the discipline, from his death in 1900 until his centennial in 1954. Initially, contemporaries defined his posthumous image through three ...