[Personality disorders: old and new problems].

Correlations were found between the structure of personality disorders (PD) (neurotic--borderline personality organization) and the regularities of PD dynamics. Taking into consideration the regularities of interaction of psychopathologic manifestations with positive symptomatology, three types of PD dynamics were psychopathologically identified, which show information on polar (compensation--decompensation) processes: 1) that in form of personality development; 2) that in form of PD-associated quasipsychoses; associated with DP; 3) that in form of transformation of characterological disorders into psychopathologic ones. The first two types of dynamics, which appear as as actualization of pathocharacterological formations in the pattern of mental disorders, reflect decompensation processes.

[Clinical variants of sexual sadism].

Clinical variants of sadistic sexual craving (obtrusive, compulsive, and ego-syntonic) are described, based on examinations of subjects who repeatedly committed murders. Some approaches to formation of these states and their time course are shown. A clinical case is described.

[A comparative evaluation of the biochemical and psychopathological characteristics in subjects with signs of pedophilia].

RIA was employed to examine 54 test subjects who committed sexual crimes with regard to children of tender age. A syndrome of sexual perversions in the form of pedophilia was discovered in 42 persons. Different patients' groups manifested significant differences in the content of hypophyseal and sexual hormones in the blood serum.