Abstract: According to the world health organization statistics at the present time depression comes in second (after cardiovascular disease) by the number of cases. This disease responds poorly to treatment and is accompanied by a significant deterioration in the quality of life, severe social consequences and frequently results in suicide attempts to end suffering. The aim of this research is to apply data of psychology, psychiatry and other achievements of medical science to analyze classical history, mechanism and manifestations of depressive disorders, to give their explanation and to show ways of overcoming them through the use of various psychotechnics and influence on somatic changes accompanying depression. The research is based on the demonstration of the author's own successful experience of overcoming the symptoms of depression and similar experiences described in the works of reputable researchers. Critical analysis and comparison of approaches to treatment of depression that has developed in medical science, folk healing methods and Eastern practices of yoga allowed the author to identify and offer an effective complex of self-improvement, which includes: psycho relaxation and overcoming phobias, the method of introspection and positive examples of aerobic activity. Specific successful experience of overcoming depression can be successfully used not only by those who suffer from this disease to facilitate and overcome depression, it can be also useful to practical psychologists and healers. The author used new developments in the field of neuroscience which can help better understand the mechanism of development and manifestations of this psychosomatic disease. 

Keywords: relaxation, phobia, psychosomatics, soma, psychotechnics, psyche, neurosis, introspection, depression, aerobic exercise

Abstract: The author of the article makes an attempt to alight philosophical and, most of all, ethical issues related to anorexia, bulimia and their treatment. Based on Cimona Giordano’s book ‘Understanding eating disorders: conceptual and ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa’, the author of the present article offers an unusual solution of the issue concerning restrictions of such patients’ autonomy. The author provides facts proving that cognitive defects such patients might have do not restrict their autonomy and therefore, Giordano’s opinion that the principle of plain paternalism can be applied to their therapy is rather biased. Generally, the author keeps up to the opinion that unconscious adoption of particular values is one of the factors of anorexia and bulimia (transedential values and overcoming the mother’s claims that a woman must be thin). The author also points out the non verifiable nature of values (which was not considered by Giordano) and therefore impossibility to regard patients’ values as ‘non-correct’ and unauthentic and to use the principle of paternalism. The author makes a conclusion that freedom of patients suffering from anorexia and bulimia must not be restricted because their free will and a right to act how they want are very important for therapy and treatment of eating disorders.

Keywords: psychiatry, anorexia, bulimia, ethics, paternalism, autonomy, values, reasoning, information, correctness.

Abstract: In this chapter Bullington offers his definition of holistic health, provides evaluation of different approaches to health (including traditional Chinese medicine) and studies the compliance of these approaches to the definition of health according to the World Health Organization. Bullington also describes views of a French philosopher, follower of the phenomenological school Merleau-Ponty and denies the reductive domination of the illness model.

Keywords: psychology, holism, holistic health, phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, bio-medicine, whole person, psychosomatics, balance, Chinese medicine.

Abstract: The article describes clinical features of the process of depressive affect experienced by patients who abuse psychoactive and narcotic substances. The author of the article defines the extent to which a patient’s personal history influences the development and manifestation of the depressive syndrome. The research also assessed the social status of patients suffering from depressive disorders and drug dependence and discovered peculiarities of psychosomatic and psychological status of such patients.

Keywords: psychiatry, depressive affect, drug dependence, abuse, narcotic substances, mental status, psychosomatic status, social factor, family background, psychoactive substances.

Abstract: In her researches Jennifer Bullington, a professor at Schendal High School in Stockholm, focuses on the system philosophical analysis of psychosomatic theories and the problems of theoretical interpretation of psychosomatic states in order to improve the treatment of patients who have complicated psychosomatic symptoms. Bullington views psychosomatic theory from the point of view of philosophy, particularly based on such authors as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In this work, Bullington presents her alternative phenomenological theory of psychosomatics being inspired by a French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Merleau-Ponty developed the definition of living body and transformation of structure. Viewing the phenomenon of perception from the phenomenological point of view allows us to get access to the field which has never been discovered before. This is the field which Merleau-Ponty described as the ‘interweaving’ or a ‘dialogue’ between human and the world.

Keywords: psychology, phenomenology, psychosomatics, psychophysical issue, subjectivity, body, soul, intentionality, consciousness, feelings, natural attitude.

Abstract: The article contains a psychological interpretation of corporeity. Special attention is paid at the weakening of sensuality in the process of child’s development. The author also describes certain factors which lead to so-called ‘death body’ phenomenon.

Keywords: psychology, sensuality, body, instinct, consciousness, mind, passion, myth, schizoid, reality.

Abstract: The article considers how perception of one’s body changes after plastic surgery. In this context, the author touched upon the questions of connection between prototype and image, identity and destruction of a personal core.

Keywords: psychology, human, body, corporeity, prototype, image, plastic surgery

Abstract: Abstract: The article is devoted to the origins of “masochistic character”. The author viewed conceptions of masochism in works by R. Craft-Ebbing, Freud, Horny and Zaher Mazoh. The article also contains a description of the psychoanalytic work with a patient.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, character, human, personality, sexuality, masochism, cruelty, shame

Abstract: the article reveals the bond between the spiritual and the “bodily” beginnings. The author analyzed verbal manifestations of emotions and described the grounds for the psychosomatic approach.

Keywords: psychology, psychoanalysis, psychosomatics, frustration, soul, spirit, illness, patient, therapy, body