ABOUT INSTITUTE

The St.Petersburg V.M.Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute

The St.Petersburg Psychoneurological Research Institute was designed and founded as a scientific practical and educational institution of the new type in 1907 by the great Russian psychiatrist and neurologist Vladimir Mikhailovich BEKHTEREV. Its main mission was to connect the knowledge of the brain structure and functions with the clinic of human neuro-mental disorders and psychology. In 1925 the Institute was named after its founder.
Today the V.M.Bekhterev Institute is a unique, the only one of its kind, scientific practical facility with special clinics and laboratories comprehensively developing the issues of psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery, addictions, clinical psychology, psychotherapy and rehabilitation of patients. In addition to research, for many decades the Institute has been delivering personnel training. It offers programs providing different level of training including post-graduate programs, residency and one-year internships for medical doctors, residency for clinical psychologists and a wide range of continuing education programs. The V.M.Bekhterev Institute is a clinical base for the Department of Psychology of St.Petersburg State University and for the St.Petersburg Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education. The Institute is well known abroad owing to its wide international connections; its scientists take part in different scientific research programs, particularly, in the programs designed by the Department of Mental Health of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Institute being one of its regional Centers in Russia.