The publication includes a classic work in which, in a historical and social context, the “odyssey” of the search for understanding the picture of the human soul, the pathological processes of mental life is systematized. This publication, unique in scale, covers almost all psychotherapeutic (psychiatric) trends in European history, starting from healing among ancient peoples and ending with modern theories and practices until the middle of the 20th century. The book remains an unsurpassed encyclopedia of psychotherapy in terms of the volume of material presented and the number of scientific and medical references and is an indispensable reference tool in various fields of the history of psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. At the same time this is a source of information about one of the most important layers of European culture, necessary for anyone who wants to know it in all its complexity and interdependence of its various spheres. For psychologists, philosophers, religious scholars and all those who are interested in the problems and history of psychology.