[Prevalence, diagnostics, and therapy of psychotic disorders among general somatic diseases].

The paper presents observational data of depression extent among general patients. Psychosomatic disorders are considered in the article. The authors analyzed the mental disorders incidence among different groups of somatic patients, a problem of using the various treatment techniques in these groups.

[The bases for the sociomedical rehabilitation of patients with affective disorders].

Different views are presented on the issue of delivering psychiatric services under present-day conditions. The necessity is substantiated to develop medical and social services to be provided to mental patients. The author submits data on the prevalence of mental disturbances, degree of disability, efficiency of biologic methods of therapy.

[The clinico-psychopathological characteristics of affective disorders].

Based on the study of 228 depressive patients presenting with various nosological entities of the disorder a detailed clinical and psychopathological characterization was done of depressive disorders. The authors makes out five clinical variants related to features of the pathological process and principal clinical manifestations of the disorder in question. The role of different social and psychological factors in genesis of present-day depression is analyzed.