[A role of clinical, psychological and social factors in the formation of hetero - and self-aggressive behavior of women serving time in a correctional facility]. / Rol' klinicheskikh, psikhologicheskikh i sotsial'nykh faktorov v formirovanii geteroagressivnogo i autoagressivnogo povedeniia zhenshchin, otbyvaiushchikh nakazanie v ispravitel'nom uchrezhdenii.

AIM: To define a role of clinical, psychological and social factors in the development of aggressive behavior in women. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A total of 1054 women serving their sentence in a penal colony were stratified into three groups: group 1 - 435 women with heteroaggressive behavior, group 2 - 298 women with self-aggressive behavior, group 3 (control group) - 321 woman without aggressive behavior. Clinical, psychological, sociological, and statistical methods were used. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The groups differed by the presence, severity and form of mental disorder and by psychological and social characteristics. It has been concluded that clinical and psychopathological factors play the most important role in the formation of aggression in women. The importance of psychological factors is ambiguous. They often play a secondary role but may be on parity or priority. The impact of social factors is often mediated.

[The clinical predictors of heteroaggressive behaviour of the women serving sentence in penitentiary]. / Klinicheskie prediktory geteroagressivnogo povedeniya zhenshchin, otbyvayushchikh nakazanie v ispravitel'nom uchrezhdenii.

AIM: To identify clinical predictors of heteroaggressive behavior. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Three hundreds and three women serving sentence in a penal colony were examined using clinical, neurologic and statistical methods. The main group consisted of 225 women with heteroaggressive behavior, the control group included 78 women without aggressive behavior. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Differences between the main and control groups in the structure of mental disorders and key syndromes were revealed. The authors conclude that the states with elements of dysphoria, dysthymia, decompensation of personality disorders, which are defined in the various forms of mental pathology, are the most significant predictors of heteroaggressive behavior in women in the penal colony.

[Psychogenic depressions due to organic deficiencies in the forensic psychiatric clinic]. / Psikhogennye depressii na organicheski nepolnotsennoi pochve v sudebno-psikhiatricheskoi klinike.

Psychopathological manifestations of psychogenic depressions in subjects with organic lesions were carried out with consideration for concomitant conditions of the brain (residual abnormalities, injuries, alcoholic poisoning). Clinical examples of psychogenically induced depressive states are presented. Diagnostic approaches to and specific features of forensic psychiatric assessment of such cases are outlined.