Sleeping. From the notes of the old psychiatrist. Chistovich A.S.

There is no fiction in the book: all the faces mentioned in it existed and, for the most part, continue to exist. Many have not even changed names. The author spoke in detail about the mental illness of his patients and various methods of their treatment. The famous psychiatrist is Professor Andrei Sergeyevich Chistovich, headed the largest departments of psychiatry of the Soviet Union, including the Department of the Military Medical Academy and the Clinic of Psychiatry of the Institute of Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. A brilliant lecturer, an original scientist who has made a significant contribution to the doctrine of infectious psychoses, their chronic forms. Actively interested in the problem of sleep and dreams.