The book of the outstanding British psychoanalyst Wilfred Ruprecht Bion is devoted to the problems of the relationship between medicine and psychoanalysis. The main concepts of the author are discussed: container and containable, mystic and group, faith and lies. Work with the "Mendeleev psychoanalytic table" - the W.R. Bion lattice is described. For practical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts.