Mishchenko, Mykhailo

Mishchenko, Mykhailo [Міщенко, Михайло; Miščenko, Myxajlo], b 24 May 1896 in Kharkiv, d 20 May 1974 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Psychiatrist and neurophysiologist; full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Shevchenko Scientific Society (from 1947). In 1917 he joined the Army of the Ukrainian National Republic and served as a major at the front. After completing his medical studies in 1929, he taught at the Kharkiv Institute of People's Education and the Kharkiv Medical Institute and conducted research at the All-Ukrainian Psychoneurological Academy. A postwar refugee and displaced person in Germany, he taught briefly at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich and then emigrated to the United States of America (1949), where he practiced psychiatry and continued his research. His scientific papers, most of them based on his own experiments, were published in Ukrainian, English, German, and Russian; they deal with topics such as the treatment of schizophrenia, the nature of hypnosis and sleep, and psychiatric aspects of heart diseases.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]