The destinies of schizophrenia carriers: clinical, social, judicial and psychiatric aspects.

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleСудьбы больных шизофренией: клинико-социальный и судебно-психиатрический аспекты.
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Scientific theories and disciplines > Psychology-Psychoanalysis
6. Publication date 2010
7. lemma work Кондратьев Федор [Author]. The destinies of schizophrenia carriers: clinical, social, judicial and psychiatric aspects.
8. lemma manifestations Судьбы больных шизофренией: клинико-социальный и судебно-психиатрический аспекты. Под редакцией проф. В.Ф. Ястребова. : The destinies of schizophrenia carriers: clinical, social, judicial and psychiatric aspects.
9. Keywords psychiatry and Christianity
10. Citations
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    1. Professor Kondratiev investigates in his monography the social nature of the psychiatric disorders resulting in the loss of unity and freedom of the sufferers’ identities. All of the book units contain historical and theoretical implications to the discussed issues and practical recommendations essential to help the patients.

       The author speaks not only as a scholar and a practicing psychiatrist, but also as a faithful Christian, a churchman who examines the described issues through the prism of the Christian conception of man. Kondratiev displays the difference in relation to mentally disordered people in medieval Europe (as to defective persons, similar to animals) and in medieval Orthodox world (as to blissful, holy fools, “God’s people”).

       The author considers the social behavior of a mentally disordered individual to be in dependence with his religious beliefs; the behavior of an atheist or a materialist would be different from the behavior of a churchman with the same diagnosis. The author’s particular attention is given to the religious delirium stories and to the diagnostics of psychical disorders of the religious sects’ adepts.