[To the evolution of the concept of «psychopathy¼ in Russian psychiatry: from F.V. Rybakov to T.I. Yudin]. / K evolyutsii kontseptsii «psikhopatii¼ v otechestvennoi psikhiatrii: ot F.E. Rybakova do T.I. Yudina.

The changes in the concept of psychopathy in Russian psychiatry from the beginning of twentieth century through examples of several works of native psychiatrists: F.E. Rybakov, S.A. Sukhanov, P.B. Gannushkin, V.P. Osipov, T.I. Yudin are analyzed. The tendency to transformation of the concept of «general degenerative constitution¼ into the concept of relatively discrete types of psychopathic personalities is delineated. The understanding of «degenerative psychopathy¼ as unitary predisposition to the «degenerative psychoses¼, inborn disharmony of character with its multivarious innumerable variants and different forms of «deficiencies¼, including intellectual, is experiencing transformation to the numerically limited separated types of psychopathic personalities and pathological characters related to the appropriate more pronounced psychiatric diseases. This trend in the native psychiatry reflects also the general trends of understanding of psychopathies and pathological characters in Russian, German and French psychiatry and psychology.

[The abnomal personalities in the conception of H. Gruhle]. / Anomal'nye lichnosti v kontseptsii G. Grule.

Understanding of psychopathic personality in the conception of H. Gruhle, a famous German psychiatrist, is analyzed. The issue that the psychopathic personality is accidentally combined with mental illness, psychosis is contradictory to the conception of 'general degenerative constitution'; psychopathology can be isolated and transient. There is absence of age criteria in the diagnosis of psychopathy as well. The initial attempt of H. Gruhle to systematically consider all types of psychopathy was not well substantiated, therefore the author returned to Kraepelin's systematics of psychopathic personality according to prominent traid.