Origins & Early Life

Grunya Yefimovna Sukhareva (Груня Ефимовна Сухарева, [ˈɡrunʲə jɪˈfʲiməvnə ˈsuxərʲɪvə], alternative transliteration Suchareva) (11 November 1891 – 26 April 1981) was a Soviet child psychiatrist and the first psychiatrist to identify and pathologize autism. Grunya Yefimovna Sukhareva was born to parents Khaim Faitelevich and Rakhila Iosifovna Sukhareva on November 11th, 1891 in Kyiv, Russian Empire. She studied medicine at the Kyiv Medical Institute, and in 1915, earned her medical degree. She then began working at the institute's epidemiological unit until 1917, when she started working as a licensed psychiatrist at the Kyiv Psychiatric Hospital until 1921.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

She served as Head of the Defectology Department at the Institute of Mental Health of Children and Adolescents from 1919 until her departure in 1921. In 1921, Sukhareva moved to Moscow, where she was employed at the Psychoneurological Department for Children. It was here that Sukhareva founded a school — the first of many that she would found throughout her career — and named it the Psycho-Neurological and Pedagogical Sanatorium School of the Institute of Physical Training and Medical Pedology. At the Sanatorium School...

Enduring Legacy & Impact

The historical impact and works continue to influence the modern world.

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