Alexander Kotsubinsky


Alexander Petrovich Kotsubinsky is a prominent Russian psychiatrist, a spokesman of St. Petersburg psychiatric school.

Education and career

Alexander Kotsubinsky graduated from Leningrad Pediatric Institute in 1964 and was in 1981 awarded the Candidate of Sciences degree for his dissertation The Peculiarities of Remissions in Faintly Progredient Schizophrenia. He attained the M. D. degree in 2000. At present he is full professor in the Medical Academy of postgraduate education and head of the out-patient psychiatry department of the Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute in St. Petersburg. His son is a Russian journalist and historian.

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