Alexander Dovzhenko (psychiatrist)

Aleksandr Dovzhenko died in Feodosia on February 4, 1995, after a second stroke.

In 1985 in Feodosia's Stamboli Palace building Dovzhenko opened the Republican Narcological Psychotherapy Center under the Ministry of Healthcare of Soviet Ukraine.

In 1984 Dovzhenko's method of therapy was recognized as an invention and registered by the State Committee on Inventions and Discoveries titled as "The Treatment of Сhronic Alcoholism based on Dovzhenko's method". Dovzhenko's method was approved by the Department for Implementing of Medication and Medical Equipment of the Ministry of Healthcare and by the Ministry of Healthcare of Soviet Ukraine.

The approbation of Dovzhenko's approach, its theoretical and scientific foundation was held in during 1979-1980s in the V. P. Protopopov Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Neurology and Psychiatry in Kharkiv.

In 1977–1985 Dovzhenko worked as senior researcher in the V. P. Protopopov Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Neurology and Psychiatry in Kharkiv. In the Kharkiv Institute for Doctors' Improvement Dovzhenko graduated from practical hypnosis courses.

In 1936 Dovzhenko has entered the Crimean Medical Institute and was graduated in 1941. After graduation Dovzhenko worked as a doctor in various places, where he began to implement modern psycho-therapeutic methods. In 1948 he was appointed as chief physician of a dermato-venerologic clinic in Feodosia. Afterwards for some time Dovzhenko worked in a medical office of the Feodosian Sea Port.

Aleksandr Romanovich Dovzhenko (Russian: Александр Романович Довженко; Ukrainian: Олександр Романович Довженко; 1918–1995) was a Soviet and Ukrainian physician, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and substance abuse counselor. He is most famous for developing the Dovzhenko's method ("Coding").

Aleksandr Dovzhenko was born on March 29, 1918, in a family of a seaman.