Psychoneurology in fiction

The book contains excerpts from prosaic and poetic works of 38 domestic and 22 foreign writers - from classics to contemporaries, reflecting in artistic form the etiology and manifestations of various mental and neurological diseases and syndromes. Among them are works of art of writers-doctors and pacifier writers. The compilers of the almanac are a doctor and a pathologist from St. Petersburg State University involved in the study of the etiology and pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders in immunoenoendocrine diseases. The book proceeds from the fact that medicine is not only science, but part of the culture of mankind, associated with health and diseases, and the nature of knowledge and laws of creativity are such that these forms of human activity are carried out on an interdisciplinary basis, with mutual penetration of rational and sensual approaches, "On top of the barriers" of specialization.

The publication is of interest not only for practicing doctors, including psychiatrists, neurologists, narcologists, therapists, but also for all readers interested in the sciences of the person of his behavior), for pathologists, psychologists, historians, philosophers, sociologists , literary scholars, university teachers and students, book lovers, for everyone who seeks to expand their erudition and enrich their scientific and professional thinking by the sensory perception of the world of pathology. Almanac is equipped with an author’s preface analyzing the role of a doctor as a native speaker and creator of culture and language, the relationship of medicine and literature, portraits of writers, whose works are included in the selection, as well as the author’s pointer of 350 doctors and bibliography.