Life and death of Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev

Abstract

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev was a Russian innovative neuroscientist, extraordinary in the study, diagnosis, and research in the fields of neurology, psychology, morphology, physiology, and psychiatry. Considering the ample and multifaceted scientific feats, only some are touched in a very brief manner. However, it is necessary to highlight his contributions to neurology, with the description of structures, signs and syndromes, to physiology, including reflexology, which later underpinned behaviorism, to psychology, including objective psychology and suggestion. His accomplishments and legacy remained until the present days. Some comments about the scenery that involved his death are also presented.

Lazursky’s Natural Experimentation as a Method of Personality Investigation in Brazil

“…Lazursky concentrated his work in psychology mainly at the Psychoneurology Institute in Saint Petersburg and his major advisor was the Russian neurologist Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, who was a neuroscientist that devoted himself to the studies about diagnosis and research in the neurology, psychology, morphology, physiology, and psychiatry areas. His major contributions to neurology lay in the descriptions of structures, signs and syndromes in physiology, besides having been one of the reflexology representatives, theory that gave basis to behaviorism in psychology, providing the development of the objective and suggestive psychology (Maranhão-filho, Maranhão, & Engelhardt, 2015). From 1908, Lazursky dedicated himself to the study of methods that resulted in a closer approximation with the individual (Korsakov, 1977).…”