Dissocial personality disorder is one of the most controversial categories in the clinical field. Some people argue that this is just a pseudoclinic name for scammers and other criminal elemen...

For the first time the term "autism" for the disease was proposed by American scientist Leo Kanner in 1943.He also gave the first detailed description of this disease, therefore the second name o...

Recently, in the press, reports of suicide among teenagers have become more frequent. The most common causes of suicide are depressive states. Such states develop not in an hour or a day. Depress...

For the first time in Russian medical literature, the concepts "psychopathy", "psychopaths" appeared in 1884.Then forensic psychiatrists IM.Balinsky and OM.Chechette conducted an examination of a...

Perhaps sleepwalking is one of the most interesting topics in doubt, which causes the most questions: • Sleeping and sleeping( sleepwalking) - what is it really? • Is this related to any diseas...

Many people once in life pursued a sense of hopelessness, some thought about suicide and each of us could not once in my life meet a man with such thoughts. Suicide is committed by people of diff...

Narcissism( narcissistic personality disorder or narcissism syndrome) is a disorder associated with a person's self-esteem violated towards complacency. Pathological( painful, with impaired) self...

At the end of pregnancy, during childbirth the expectant mother becomes passive, loses control over the situation, at the same time a feeling of disturbing unusualness arises, and some women suff...

This type of psychopathy is characterized by a significant decrease in social contacts. The schizoids show a low level of emotional expression. They do not have close relationships with others, b...

Epilepsy is a chronic disease of the brain, the main manifestation of which are spontaneous, short-term, rarely occurring epileptic seizures. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological di...

Each of us is familiar with the feeling of anxiety. This feeling appears in a difficult life situation, in conditions threatening our health, and maybe life. Many were worried about the health of...

Bulimia is an eating disorder consisting of a series of gluttony and episodes of vomiting, the use of laxatives, etc. Uncontrolled attitudes toward food, increase and weight loss are only visible...

People with a hysterical personality disorder are extremely emotional and constantly get attention. As a rule, they are described as "emotionally charged".An immoderate, rapidly changing mood can...

This disease occurs mainly in girls in the puberty period, less often in young women and boys. It manifests itself as an obsessive unreasonable fear of overweight, which causes a sharp restrictio...

Physical violence is a one-time or repeated deliberate act against another person( a family member, subordinate, child, etc.) committed in addition to the will and desire of the victim. The act i...

Unfortunately, at present, the majority of elderly people with depressive disorders do not get into the field of view of psychiatrists, including gerontopsychiatrists, do not get specialized care...