About the book: 2023 / The work tells about the most common mistakes of patients and their relatives during treatment with a psychotherapist and psychiatrist, which significantly reduced the effectiveness of treatment. At least. And, at the most, they led to a series of great dramas and tragedies. Despite the doctor's warnings. Willfulness and extravagance, self-confidence and narcissism, ambition and pride, the claim to possess the ultimate truth, the desire to devalue the doctor’s personality and his competence to the maximum extent - these are big and terrible enemies in the treatment of diseases. Especially mental ones. The relevance of the work is explained by the fact that in society the culture of health in general and mental health in particular is extremely low. Even among general practitioners, doctors of science and professors. And the level of competence of a neurologist-professor in understanding the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, unfortunately, is not much higher than the competence of a janitor. The specificity of psychiatry is too great.