About the book: year / Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Melekhov (1899–1979), son of a priest of the Ryazan diocese, was a student and associate of the founders of Soviet psychiatry S. S. Korsakova, P. B. Gannushkina. He is one of the founders of modern social psychiatry, that is, that area of ​​psychiatry that develops the principles of returning the mentally ill to life. Professor D. E. Melekhov saw his task as approaching mental illness by combining scientific, medical and religious understanding of personality.