[Psychopathological mechanisms of socially dangerous acts and the problem of responsibility]. / Psikhopatologicheskie mekhanizmy obshchestvenno opasnykh deistvii i problema nevmeniaemosti.

The authors discuss the problems of forensic-psychiatric expert examination related to the responsibility of persons suffering from different mental disorders. In addition to the assessment of the clinical picture of a mental disease, it is necessary to take into consideration (as fully as possible) the genesis and character of the committed socially dangerous action (SDA). For this purpose it is recommended that the concept of the psychopathological mechanisms of SDA worded by the authors and their classification be made use of. The establishment in a mental patient of one of the distinguished mechanisms of SDA allows the differentiation of the intellectual and volitional signs of the judicial (psychological) criterion and scientific basing of the conclusion as to the patient's irresponsibility.

[Dispensary registration of patients with neuropsychiatric diseases and possible methods of reorganizing it]. / Dispensernyi uchet bol'nykh nervno-psikhicheskimi zabolevaniiami i puti ego vozmozhnoi reorganizatsii.

On the basis of a clinical-statistical study of the population of psychic patients registered in the psychoneurological out-patient centers, a conclusion is drawn about the necessity of introducing special measures for the differential registration of such patients. Various types of observation to be conducted by the out-patient center over patients with border-line psychic disturbances, epilepsy and oligophrenia as well as with chronic mental diseases are proposed. The necessity of creating a unified set of regulations concerning the proper observation over mental out-patients is substantiated.