Vladimir Serbsky

Vladimir Petrovich Serbskiy (Владимир Петрович Сербский, February 26 1858, Bogorodsk—April 18 1917, Moscow) was one of the founders of the forensic psychiatry in Russia. An author of The Forensic Psychopathology, Serbskiy thought delinquency to have no congenital diatheses, considering it to be caused by social reasons.

A disciple of Sergey Korsakov, Serbskiy has been the head physician of Tambov mental hospital in 1885-1887. Then he was offered the rank of the senior assistant in the mental hospital of Moscow University. In 1902 Serbskiy became a professor extraordinary and the head of psychiatric studies at Moscow University.

Serbskiy died of kidney disease. The Central Institute of Forensic Psychiatry was named after Serbskiy in 1921. Now the facility is known as the Serbskiy State Scientific Center of Forensic and Social Psychiatry.

Major works

 * The Forensic Psychopathology (1896-1900)
 * On Dementia praecox (1902)
 * Manual of Study of Mental Diseases (1906)

Footnote
Сербский, Владимир Петрович