[History of the development of domestic psychiatry: the period 1940-1980].

The article briefly presents an analysis of the development of domestic psychiatry (with an emphasis on research in the field of psychopathology and nosology) from the post-war period (the Great Patriotic War) to the era of "perestroika". With the founding of the Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences under the leadership of V.A.

[Statics and dynamics of psychopathies in the concept of Ε. Κraepelin].

The concept of psychopathic personalities presented in the 8-th last lifetime edition of E. Kraepelin's textbook is analyzed. The special interest was guided by the fact that many types of psychopathic personalities were described by E.

[Doctrine of dynamics of psychopathies: phases and psychogenic reactions (from K. Jaspers to P.B. Gannushkin)].

The influence of description of the forms of course of mental pathology and systematization of abnormal mental reactions in General Psychopathology of K. Jaspers(1913) on the subsequent development of the concepts of psychopathies dynamics and psychopathic reactions in the works of E. Kretschmer (1918), E.

[Doctrine of psychopathies: the concept of M.O. Gurevich and M.Ja. Serejskij].

Understanding of psychopathies in the concept of Russian psychiatrists M.O. Gurevich and M.

[Evolution of the concept of psychopathy in Russian psychiatry from V.H. Kandinskiy to S.A. Sukhanov].

The development of the concept of clinical signs of «general» predisposition to mental diseases that is defined by the notion of psychopathy is analyzed. The foundations of this concept in Russian psychiatry were laid by V.H.