J. S. Kasanin

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

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

In 1933 inThe American Journal of Psychiatry he published a paper entitled '"The Acute Schizoaffective Psychoses" which he had presented at the88th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Associationin 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.

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