The paper is devoted to the organization, theory and practice of gerontological pathopsychology, including questions of differentiation between normal and pathological in gerontopsychiatry, validity and reliability of experimental-psychological methods. With special reference to a variety of forms of the insight of the disease in elderly age the author shows a multi-factorial nature of personality symptom complexes. The design of a pathopsychological study and the selection of experimental techniques are shown to depend on the nature of clinical tasks facing the investigator.
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