Year: 2019

In modern psychiatry, it is considered that the development of depression, like most other mental disorders, requires the combined effect of three factors: biological, psychological and social (O. Ergmann et al., 1984; Bragina NN, Dobrokhotova

German neurologist and psychiatrist V. Griesinger, who made a great contribution to the pathological anatomy of mental disorders, believed that melancholia, like any other mental disorder, can be considered from the point of view of

An interesting book by the French psychiatrist of the eighteenth century, Lorry, “On Melancholy and Melancholic Diseases” (Lorry, 1765). He believed that in addition to black bile, the maximum spasm of elastic fibers, nerves, plays

The history of depression is inseparable from the history of mankind, its philosophy, medicine and culture. It is of interest to study the evolution of the views of psychiatrists on depression and those conditions close

Despite the fact that the word “depression” (depressia – from the Latin. Deprimo – press, suppress) has been used in medicine for more than two hundred years, it does not have a clear definition. In

Depression is not only a medical, but also a social problem of our time. The subjective severity of the manifestations of depression, the tendency to frequent relapses of this condition, the relatively high cost of