The final work of the greatest scientist, doctor and public figure - Academician Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, is published for the first time. The book examines various aspects of the mental activity of the individual in normal and pathological conditions, as well as on their borders. V.M. Bekhterev considered the complex reflexological approach to the study of personality to be especially important. Accordingly, the book touches on issues of an anatomical and physiological nature, combinational and reflex activity, heredity, creativity, including in the highest form of its manifestation - genius, and also examines illusions and hallucinations. Social problems are not left without attention.

CONTENTS: Preface (5). Brief historical introduction (11). Chapter I. Reflexological method (33). Chapter 2. Anatomical and physiological features of human brain activity ( 55).Chapter 3. Endocrine glands and their importance in human life (92).Chapter 4. About reflexes and combination-reflex activity (111).4.1. Mimic-somatic and orientation reflexes (130).4.2. Instinctive (organic) reflexes (139).4.3. Speech associative (symbolic) reflexes (149).4.4. Verbal report (165).4.5. The principle of interaction and dominance (172). Chapter 5. About heredity (191). Chapter 6. Creativity of a sick person (207). 6.1. Genius and madness (216).Chapter 7. Illusions and hallucinations (231).7.1. Theory of hallucinations (255). Chapter 8. Delusion (264). Chapter 9. Features of speech, reading, gestures and writing of mental patients (289). APPENDICES Prospects for human reflexology (303). Objective study of a sick personality as the basis of pathological reflexology (306). Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev as an organizer (324). Bibliography (327).