Yuri Nuller

Yuri Lvovich Nuller (

Yuri's father, Lev Moiseevich Nuller, a Soviet diplomat in France,^[2] was recalled from abroad with his family in 1938, arrested and executed by NKVD on 28 July 1941.^[3]

Career

In 1950 Yuri himself was arrested under the preposterous accusation that he had been recruited by France's

Legacy

As a person, Yuri is remembered for his kindness, morality and superb intellectual qualities that put him in the ranks of Russian intelligentsia. He abstained from visible dissident activities, but befriended some dissidents known in the West.^[4] As a psychiatrist, Yuri Nuller was noted for his high professionalism. Novel psychotropic medications were introduced in his clinic, and he strived to create new treatment strategies, aiming primarily to relieve anxiety. His technique was christened a "Diazepam test": high doses of the drug were introduced acutely and the psychiatrist tried to interpret, judging on the changing anxiety level and the symptoms that became more prominent, what may have caused the disorder.^[5]

Yuri Nuller had more than 130 publications and became an author of two books. He was a thesis adviser, with two Ph.D. and five doctoral dissertations defended under his supervision. During the last 12 years of his life he was the head of a department at the St. Petersburg V. M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute.

Bibliography

• Нуллер Ю.Л. Депрессия и деперсонализация. ("Depression and depersonalisation") -Л., 1981
• Нуллер Ю.Л., Михаленко И.Н. Аффективные психозы. ("Affective psychoses") Л.: Медицина, 1988.
• Nuller, Y.L. (1992). "Affective Disorders in ICD-10: Strengths and Weaknesses".
  ISSN 1064-6930
  . Retrieved 4 January 2011.
• Нуллер, Юрий (2008). Структура психических расстройств [The Structure of Mental Disorders] (PDF) (in Russian). Kyiv: Сфера.
  ISBN 978-966-8782-44-2
  .