Psychosomatic aspects of ethnopsychology and ethnopsychotherapy.

Abstract

The contemporary situation in psychiatric science is as follows: 1) increased sick rate with chronic neuro-mental disorders (in the first turn with lingering neurotic states, psychosomatic disturbances, depressive and addictive disorders), 2) need in development of integral prevention of chronic human diseases, 3) recognized by many clinicians interrelationship of somatic, mental and social-economic factors in the genesis of relatively new, little studied chronic progress of "mixed" pathology: social cataclysms have forwarded psychosomatic diseases, developing in "masked" form, in the flux of interests of specialists of various medicine disciplines, 4) recognition and directed removal latent pictures of depressions, variable forms of addictive behavior, constituting an important social problem of public life.