The Doctrine of Psychopaths. Pathologies of the Soul and Mind

Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin — a Soviet psychiatrist, founder of a psychiatric school, author of the concept of "small psychiatry", and initiator of the development of outpatient psychiatric care. 

Taking into account the "doctrine of resonating insanity", he explores forms of thinking and will through examples of clinical practice, analyzes the differences between delusions and reasoning, systematizes psychopathies, discussing the imagination of pathological liars, the vulnerability of dreamers, the agonizing doubts of psychasthenics, the theatricality of hysterics, the unwavering confidence of paranoids, and the cold cruelty of asocial personalities.

This publication will be useful not only for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, forensic experts, students, and researchers, but also for a wide range of readers interested in the problems of personality, psychopathy, and pathology.