Kashchenko. Vetlugina Anna Mikhailovna, Maksimenko Dmitry Mikhailovich

Peter Petrovich Kashchenko (1858-1920) became famous as the leader of several psychiatric hospitals-in Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Moscow. The last of them, the most famous, today no longer bears the name Kashchenko, but it firmly entered the mass consciousness and even into folklore, becoming a symbol of "punitive psychiatry." This is extremely unfair: after all, Pyotr Petrovich fought all his life for a humane attitude towards patients, for their return to normal life with the help of not only medicines, but also communication, physical labor, as well as music - the second after the medicine of love Dr. Kashchenko. About his difficult life, about the contribution that he made to the theory and practice of treatment of mentally ill, says the book of researchers Anna Vetlugina and Dmitry Maksimenko.