Jacob S. Kasanin, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian-born American psychiatrist
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About Jacob S. Kasanin
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- Kasanin (1897-1946) was a Russian born, American trained psychiatrist who introduced the term acute schizoaffective psychoses in 1933.
- He was born in Slavgorod, in 1897, and moved to the United States in 1915.
- He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Doctor of Medicine in 1921 and a Master of Science in Public health in 1926.
- In 1933 in The American Journal of Psychiatry he published a paper entitled '"The Acute Schizoaffective Psychoses" which he had presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Philadelphia in May or June of 1932.
- In his article Kasanin described 9 cases studies who had both schizophrenic or Psychotic symptoms and Affective symptoms.
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