Anomalies of personality. Bratus B.S.

The book is the first in Russian science by a detailed monographic study of the psychology of the deviant development of personality. Typical approaches to understanding the problem of norm and pathology are analyzed, philosophical prerequisites for identifying general criteria of the norm are considered, a holistic idea of ​​the structure and functions of the semantic sphere of personality, and the levels of mental health are given.

The book shows the specific internal mechanisms of the emergence of personality anomalies (changes in character, distortion of subjective values, attraction to alcohol and drugs, etc.), paths and principles of restoration, psychocorrection and psychoprophilacic work.