The book is the first in the domestic literature guide to general and clinical personology. It covers the basic theories of personality, its structural, typological and dynamic characteristics. From the standpoint of clinical psychology, an assessment of various options for evasive behavior is given, a detailed description of options for accentuated, neurotic, prepsychopathic, "addictive," "psychosomatic" personality is given. Data on psychotherapeutic, pharmacological and sociopsychological correction of personality deviations are presented.