The publication analyzes the main directions of the influence of psychiatry on the problems and methodological tools of French philosophy of the 20th century, as well as presents the main components of the psychiatric discourse of France in its development and complexity: the theory of psychiatry and the practice of psychiatric care, studies of mental processes, theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Sections of the book are equipped with questions and creative tasks (bibliographic, comparative-content, tasks with elements of cases, pedagogical).