About the book: 2019 / Professor Janusz Rybakowski (born 1946) is a famous Polish psychiatrist, whose work deservedly received international recognition in 1998–2001 – President of the Polish Psychiatric Association. Acquaintance with the monograph by Y. Rybakovsky will allow the thoughtful reader to obtain extensive, comprehensive information about the “faces of manic-depressive disorder” - the clinic, pathogenesis and treatment of affective diseases, based on data from numerous scientific sources, a significant proportion of which are works carried out in the 21st century. The book is addressed to psychiatrists, doctors of other specialties, and psychologists, but the brilliant erudition of the author allows not only to comprehensively cover fundamental problems, but also to present them in a lively form accessible even to the inexperienced reader.