Psychiatric puzzles. Selected scientific essays. Mendelevich V.D.

Psychiatry is a continuous puzzle. Both patients and doctors work on difficult tasks, and doctors work. The patient is trying with all his might to understand what is actually happening to him, why such a “leapfrog” and the absurdity are happening around and inside him. He tries to separate reality from fiction. Often this fails, and one insoluble task follows another. In general, you will break your head...

it is not easier for a psychiatrist, because he has to know what is often unknowable. If the patient himself does not understand himself, then who will understand him? Make a true diagnosis of mental disorder and choose the most adequate and effective method of therapy - the task is not simple. Solving, as a rule, requires quick wits and intuition, and not just professional knowledge. Diagnosis is still a puzzle...

In the book, the author gives many complex clinical cases, reflects on ambiguous psychiatric topics and attracts the interested reader with him to break his head over their decision. The topics raised by the author go beyond the framework of narrow -professional and are aimed at initiating active public discussion.

The book is intended for specialists in the field of mental health (psychiatrists, psychotherapists, medical psychologists, narcologists) and those interested in the problems of searching for the boundary of the norm and pathology of mental activity.