The guide describes the issues of propaedeutics of psychiatry, general psychopathology and private psychiatry (schizophrenia, psychosis, etc.). General psychopathology is presented taking into account the formation of an epistemological profile of the most important psychopathological symptoms and syndromes. Psychopathological phenomenology is illustrated by clinical examples from the guidelines of recognized specialists, which allows doctors to better understand the importance and significance of data that have become textbook.