La participation du psychiatre russe P.A. Ostankov (1867–1949) aux Annales Médico-Psychologiques

Abstract

PA Ostankov was a pure representative of the Leningrad school of psychiatry. It remained dominated by the legacy of V. Bekhterev and the works of his pupil Ostankov bear its mark. Long inspired by neuropsychiatry and organicism, Russian psychiatry became, in the Soviet era, essentially “physiological,” due to the place given to Pavlov's work. This evolution was more important in Moscow than in Leningrad, where psychiatrists sought to maintain links and familiarity with Western psychiatry. P.A. Ostankov's four articles in the Annales Médico-Psychologiques published between 1934 and 1939 are representative of a conception of psychiatry that, in France, had been that of Dupré and his school and which appeared outdated to younger psychiatrists. In 1943, Ostankov bore witness to the Jewish origin of the victims of a mass murder committed by the Germans.