Vladimir Nikolayevich Myasishchev (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Мяси́щев; 11 July 1893 – 4 October 1973) was a Soviet psychiatrist and developmental psychologist.
Proposed the term "systemic neuroses" describing diseases conditioned by reactive psychogenetic factors to which the patient's personality reacts with disturbances that are fixated and intensified in the future.
Researched borderline states and their treatment, sought to distinguish them from neuroses, studied the problem of norm, psychosomatic health and its restoration.
In 1921 he contributed towards the First Conference on Scientific Organization of Labour, where he rejected Frederick Taylor's proposal to turn man into a machine.
[2] Having accepted the thesis of Marx and Engels that the essence of man is a set of social relations, Myasishchev developed the psychology of relationships and, on its basis, developed the concept of psychogenies and pathogenetic, or psychogenetic, psychotherapy; at the same time, he adopted a number of ideas from psychoanalysis.