Psychiatry of childhood. Makarov I.V.

The leadership reflects the scientific and practical views of representatives of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) child-teenage psychiatry, and most authors of the publication are supporters of the school of an outstanding scientist and practice, one of the founders of childhood psychiatry of Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Professor S. S. Mnukhin. At the modern scientific and methodological level, the issues of general psychopathology of childhood, original views on psychosis in children and adolescents (schizophrenia, affective and organic psychoses), psychopathies and behavioral disorders, neurosis, enuresis, stuttering, epilepsy, organic mental disorders, mental retardation are presented Mental development delays, hyperkinetic disorder, crisis states and mental disorders in victims of sexual violence, the organization of psychiatric care, the epidemiology of mental illness and a number of other relevant aspects of psychiatry, psychotherapy and medical psychology of child-teenage and adolescence. The book is also devoted to the upcoming anniversary date in 2019 - the 100th anniversary of the department of child psychiatry (headed by S. S. Mnukhin from 1927 to 1950) of the Psychoneurological Institute named after V. M. Bekhtereva (now - the National Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Neurology named after V. M. Bekhterev), which was the reason for a brief review of the development of the scientific thought of the department of the department over the past years.

The leadership is intended First of all, for childhood and adolescent psychiatrists, adult psychiatrists interested in childhood issues, medical (clinical) psychologists, psychotherapists, children's neurologists, pediatricians, defectologists and other specialists who are faced with the issues of protecting mental health of children and adolescents.