General psychopathology. Lecture course, 12th edition. Snezhnevsky A.V.

In the proposed course of lectures (9 lectures), the general psychopathology is not presented as a simple description of psychopathological symptoms in statics, but as a system of knowledge about the general clinical laws of the structure and movement of mental illness (pathokinesis), about the movement of psychopathological syndromes in the process of development of the disease, about ties of psychopathological phenomena with the state of the whole organism. The organic unity of the syndrome and nosological form in dynamics, in the progressive and reverse development, is shown clinical features and cases. Lectures are a valuable manual for the study of clinical psychiatry, for the education of the clinical thinking of a psychiatrist.

The book, of course, will be interesting to both practitioners and students of medical universities.