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Victor Kandinsky
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Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky (Виктор Хрисанфович Кандинский) (6 April 1849, Byankino, Nerchinsky District, Siberia – 3 July 1889, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian psychiatrist, and was 2nd cousin to famed artist Wassily Kandinsky. He was born in Siberia into a large family of extremely wealthy businessmen. Victor Kandinsky was one of the famous figures in Russian psychiatry and most notable for his contributions to the understanding of hallucinations.
He graduated from Moscow Imperial University Medical School in 1872 and started to work as a general practitioner in one of the hospitals in Moscow.
In 1877 as a military physician in the Balkans during the Russo-Turkish War, he began experiencing mood swings and hallucinations. He was medically discharged on 13 May 1877 and admitted to a naval hospital for treatment. At the end of the war, Kandinsky was awarded the light bronze medal in 1878, for participating the Russo-Turkish War.
In 1878 he married his medical nurse Elizaveta Karlovna Freimut (Елизавета Карловна Фреймут).
Kandinsky's personal physician diagnosed him as having melancholia, but Kandinsky performed self-diagnosis, and he referred to his medical condition as Primäre Verrücktheit (German for "primary paranoid psychosis") which has been anachronistically translated into modern terms as a "schizophrenic-like state". Modern psychiatrists diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia.
In October 1878, Victor again entered a psychiatric hospital. So they sent him to A. Y. Frey Private Psychiatric Hospital in Saint Petersburg. In 1879 he went back to Moscow.
In 1881, he moved to Saint Petersburg. Kandinsky was a mental health worker employed by the Psychiatric Hospital of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker since August 1881.
Kandinsky joined the St. Petersburg Psychiatric Association on 23 January 1882.
In 1885 Kandinsky published a book written in German on pseudohallucinations "Kritische und klinische Betrachtungen im Gebiete der Sinnestäuschungen" in which he describes and details hallucinations largely based on his personal experiences.
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