25 YEARS OF IPA OF RUSSIA MEMBERSHIP IN THE WPA

To the 25th anniversary of struggle for independent forensic psychiatric examination

• The obligatory condition for securing scientific substantiation and objectivity of psychiatric expert examination (1991) — B.A.Protchenko, A.I.Rudiakov
• Open letter to the chief psychiatrist of the RF Ministry of Health prof. Z.I.Kekelidze

URGENT PROBLEMS OF PSYCHIATRY

• The psychic and the somatic – alleged dualism — V.D.Topolyansky
• On nature of autopersonamnesia – clinical example — A.Yu.Perekhov, P.B.Krysenko, N.I.Nikitenko (Rostov-on-Don)

DISCUSSION OF A CLINICAL CASE

• Schizotypal disorder – prof. M.E.Burno, L.A.Mal’kova

PSYCHIATRY AND LAW

• The right of Public Prosecutor to obtain data  containing medical confidential information — Yu.N.Argunova
• Support to persons with mental disabilities in exercising their legal capacity in light of the amendments to the Russian Civil Code — Dmitri Bartenev (Saint-Petersburg)

SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY

• Thinking about the essence and social significance of conformity and conformism -B.V.Voronkov (Saint-Petersburg)
• Electroconvulsive therapy: knowledge, experience and attitudes of patients with schizophrenia — E.B. Lyubov and the Research Group
• Satisfaction of medical personnel of mental hospitals with their work and its  determinants — T. G. Svetlichnaya, E. A. Smirnovа (Arkhangelsk)

FROM AN EXPERT’S DOSSIER

• Psychiatric treatment of protest behavior

REVIEWS

• Autism of children: epidemiology (review) — V.E.Kagan (Berlin, Germany) 

COMMENTS AND RESPONSES  

• On the question of interpretation of the history of Russian psychiatry
• Russian-Ukrainian psychiatric ties
• Still farther to the Soviet past
• Concerning the article " The problems of addiction medicine in Russia”

THE CHRONICLE

• XVI Congress of the WPA in Madrid
• Control over health care in places of detention: the possibility of public monitoring commissions
• Again: "there was not punitive psychiatry" and "it should be"

PSYCHOPATOLOGY AND CREATIVENESS

• Hans Magnus Enzensberger -Poems: Protection of wolves from the sheep
• Observation of the change of functional elites
• From the essay "Perspectives of the Civil War"

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