Description: A lot depends on the worldview of the psychiatrist. If he is a believer, he often understands his task differently than an atheist; if he belongs to the same intellectual and cultural group as the patient, then he approaches the disease differently than if he were an alien from a different culture. For the surgeon, it does not matter what language the patient with a hip fracture speaks or what ethnic group he or she belongs to; For a psychiatrist, it is important who has neurosis, what the patient knows, how he feels about the disease and what his future is. The figure of the psychiatrist grows out of the image and archetype of the shaman, which was present in all cultures without exception. He could control, unlike his patients, his own mental state, accompanying them to the “upper” world and returning to earth with them in a moment of trance. In a certain sense, the sound of this profession remains mysterious even now. Contacting a psychiatrist is often scary, interesting and doubtful. The world of madness is an integral part of our culture. In a sense, this is also a world of freedom, so the boundaries of behavior control change depending on the ideas about the norm in a particular social environment. The textbook “Psychiatric Clinic” is intended for medical students, but it can also be useful to interns and psychiatrists. Unlike previous editions, in particular “A Short Course in Psychiatry” and “Psychiatry for Medical Students,” this book contains fairly complete illustrations of case histories and applications. The book “Psychiatric Clinic” is intended for medical university students, interns, psychiatrists, medical psychologists and doctors of other specialties interested in psychiatry.