About the book: year / The textbook is built on the basis of training programs for medical students in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia and pre-certification cycle programs in psychiatry, child psychiatry and narcology. All main sections of diagnostics, differential diagnosis, therapy of mental disorders, including psychotherapy, as well as the history of psychiatric science are presented. For the first time, the manual includes chapters on the analysis of patient behavior and speech, ethnic psychiatry, and describes the features of doctor-patient communications and psychopathology associated with extrasensory perception. All sections are illustrated with case histories. Diagnostic scales are included in the app. For medical university students, interns, psychiatrists, medical psychologists and doctors of other specialties interested in psychiatry problems.