Psychiatry. Textbook. Psychiatry. Tsygankov B.D., Ovsyannikov S.A.

The textbook complies with the requirements of the current State Federal Educational Standard and the Psychiatry Educational Program. The textbook contains information about the works of outstanding psychiatrists, scientists who not only identified the basic psychopathological symptoms and syndromes, but also identified individual nosological forms of psychosis. The section devoted to general psychopathology sets out descriptive psychopathology in the evolutionary formation of the categorical apparatus of the semiotics of mental illness.

in the section on specific psychiatry, authors consistently prove the significance of the clarity of the basic definitions of mental diseases with the analysis of the systematization of psychosis and taking into account dichotomic nosology -Simptomatology and content of ICD-10.

Particular attention was paid to the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia. Borderline mental disorders (neurosis, post -traumatic stress disorder, psychopathy) are described.

The textbook is intended for students of medical universities.