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Victor Skumin

1948 - Today

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Victor Andreevich Skumin (Russian: Ви́ктор Андре́евич Ску́мин, IPA: [ˈvʲiktər ɐnˈdrʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈskumʲɪn], born 30 August 1948) is a Russian and Soviet scientist, psychiatrist, philosopher and writer. After graduating from the Kharkiv National Medical University in 1973, he became a psychotherapist in Kiev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. In 1978, he described a new disease, the Skumin syndrome. He introduced a method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion for psychological rehabilitation of cardiosurgical patients (1979). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Skumin is the 158th most popular psychologist (up from 185th in 2019), the 956th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,383rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Victor Skumin ranks 158 out of 235. Before him are Robert D. Hare, Arthur Janov, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Michael Gazzaniga, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Jacques-Alain Miller. After him are Aleksei N. Leontiev, James J. Gibson, Stanley Schachter, Walter Mischel, Brenda Milner, and Harry Harlow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Victor Skumin ranks 262. Before him are Manuel Bento, Peter Hammill, Sho Kosugi, Jim Carter, Josip Katalinski, and Andrei Linde. After him are Pavel Grachev, Goodwill Zwelithini, Norair Nurikyan, Judith Miller, Tony Judt, and Muse Watson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Victor Skumin ranks 956 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrei Linde (1948), Countess Friederike von Schlieben (1757), Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov (1777), Kurt Hensel (1861), Platon Zubov (1767), and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878). After him are Boris Asafyev (1884), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Nikolay Krylov (1903), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), and Karl Maximovich (1827).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Russia

Among psychologists born in Russia, Victor Skumin ranks 6. Before him are Sabina Spielrein (1885), Alexander Luria (1902), Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917), Vladimir Bekhterev (1857), and Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846). After him are Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903), Endel Tulving (1927), and Natalia Bekhtereva (1924).

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