Victor Skumin
| Victor Skumin Виктор Андреевич Скумин |
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Skumin in 2016
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30 August 1948 Pensa Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Residence | Soviet Union, Russian Federation |
| Nationality | Soviet, Russian |
| Fields | Psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy |
| Institutions | Kiev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery (), Kharkiv Medical Academy of Post-graduate Education, Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, The World Organisation of Culture of Health (Moscow) |
| Alma mater | Kharkiv National Medical University |
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Victor Andreevich Skumin (Russian: Ви́ктор Андре́евич Ску́мин, born 30 August 1948) is a Russian and Soviet scientist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist.
After graduating from the Kharkiv National Medical University in 1973, in 1976, he became a psychotherapist in . In 1978, he described a new disease, the . He introduced a method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion for psychological rehabilitation of cardiosurgical patients (1979).
From 1980 to 1990, he was professor of psychotherapy at the Kharkiv Medical Academy of Post-graduate Education. The main result of his scientific activity was the discovery of the "syndrome of the neurotic phantom of somatic disease" and a "concept of the mental constituent of a chronic somatic disease".
From 1990 to 1994, Skumin held positions as Professor by the Chair of Psychology and Pedagogy, and Professor by the Chair of Physical Education and Health life at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture. In 1994, he was elected to the post of the President-founder of the World Organisation of Culture of Health (Moscow). In 1995, Skumin became the first editor-in-chief of the journal . He is known for inventing a popular term "Culture of Health" (1968).
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