Jacob S. Kasanin

Jacob S. Kasanin (1897-1946) was a Russian born, American trained psychiatrist who introduced the term acute schizoaffective psychoses in 1933.[1][2] He was born in Slavgorod, on the 11th of May 1897[3], 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. Whilst a Senior Research associate at Boston Psychopathic Hospital and Director of the Department of Mental Hygiene of the Federated Jewish Charities in Boston his research interest was blood sugar curves in Epidemic encephalitis. [3]

Jacob S. Kasanin
Born	(1897-05-11)May 11, 1897 Slavgorod
Died	1946
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Occupation	Psychiatrist
Known for	Schizoaffective disorder

Whilst in Russia in 1930 he became acquainted with Lev Vygotsky and his work. He translated his work Thought In Schizophrenia into English. [3]

In 1933 in The American Journal of Psychiatry he published a paper entitled '"The Acute Schizoaffective Psychoses"[4] which he had presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Philadelphia in May or June of 1932.[5] In his article Kasanin described 9 cases studies who had both schizophrenic or Psychotic symptoms and Affective symptoms. [6]

Publications

• Kasanin J., Knapp E. External factors causing variable results in the Kottmann reaction, 1926
• Kasanin J., Petersen J.N. Psychosis as an early sign of epidemic encephalitis, 1926
• The Acute Schizoaffective Psychoses. American Journal of Psychiatry 90, 1933
• Pavlov's Theory of Schizophrenia, 1932
• Bowman K.M., Kasanin J. Constitutional Schizophrenia, 1933
• Kasanin J., Hanfmann E. An experimental study of concept formation in schizophrenia. Quantitative analysis of the results. American Journal of Psychiatry 95, ss. 35-48, 1938
• Hanfmann E., Kasanin J. Conceptual thinking in schizophrenia. New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs, 1942
• Language and Thought in Schizophrenia, 1944
• Criteria of Therapy of War Neuroses American Journal of Psychiatry 104, 1947

References

1. "Schizoaffective disorder | psychology". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
2. Lake, C. Raymond; Hurwitz, Nathaniel (2006-08-30). "Schizoaffective disorders are psychotic mood disorders; there are no schizoaffective disorders". Psychiatry Research. 143 (2–3): 255–287. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2005.08.012. ISSN 0165-1781. PMID 16857267.
3. Kasanin, Jacob S.; Windholz, Emanuel (1947-01-01). "In Memoriam". The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 16 (1): 94–98. doi:10.1080/21674086.1947.11925668. ISSN 0033-2828.
4. Kasanin, J. (1933-07-01). "The acute schizoaffective psychoses". American Journal of Psychiatry. 90 (1): 97–126. doi:10.1176/ajp.90.1.97. ISSN 0002-953X.
5. Raymond Lake, C. "Jacob Kasanin (1897–1946) and Schizoaffective Disorder". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
6. Marneros, A. (2003). "The schizoaffective phenomenon: the state of the art". Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum. 108 (418): 29–33. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0447.108.s418.7.x. ISSN 0065-1591. PMID 12956811.