The textbook on psychiatry for medical university students is based on student training programs in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, as well as the International Classification ICD 10. All main sections of diagnosis, differential diagnosis, therapy of mental disorders, including psychotherapy, and also the history of psychiatric science. For students of medical universities, psychiatrists, medical psychologists, interns and doctors of other specialties. Information about the authors. Viktor Pavlovich Samokhvalov - head of the department of psychiatry, narcology and psychotherapy, Crimean Medical University. S.I. Georgievsky, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, laureate of the. E.A. Shevalev and the Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. President of the Crimean Republican Association of Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists and Psychologists. Scientific supervisor of 10 candidate dissertations in the field of psychiatry, physiology and genetics. Author of 120 publications and 7 monographs, including “Evolutionary Psychiatry”, “The Mental World of the Future”, “A Short Course in Psychiatry”. Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Tauride Journal of Psychiatry. Alexander Aleksandrovich Korobov - head of the psychotherapy course, Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, chairman of the Gestalt therapy section of the Ukrainian Society of Psychotherapists. Author of 70 publications, supervisor of 5 candidate's dissertations in the field of psychiatry. Melnikov Vladimir Alekseevich - associate professor of the department, candidate of medical sciences, chief physician of the Crimean Republican Psychiatric Hospital No. 5. Verbenko Nikolay Viktorovich - associate professor, candidate of medical sciences. Editor-in-Chief of the Tauride Journal of Psychiatry. Verbenko Victoria Anatolyevna - Candidate of Medical Sciences, executive secretary of the Tauride Journal of Psychiatry. Ganzin Igor Viktorovich - Candidate of Medical Sciences, head of the department of neuroses of the Crimean Republican Psychiatric Hospital No. 1. Khrennikov Oleg Vladimirovich - Candidate of Biological Sciences (Germany, Bad Pyrmont ).Rodriguez-Aniya Vladimir Luisovich - head of the neurophysiological laboratory of the Society of Psychiatrists.