About Grunya Sukhareva
Grunya Yefimovna Sukhareva was a Soviet child psychiatrist and the first psychiatrist to identify and pathologize autism. In 1928, Sukhareva worked as an associate professor at Moscow's first Medical Institute. In 1935, Sukhareva founded a Faculty of Pediatric Psychiatry in the Central Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education, where she served as Head of the Department until 1965. 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.
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