Kniga vydayuschegosya deyatelya otechestvennoy psihiatrii Petra Borisovicha Gannushkina (1875-1934) soderzhit ryad nikogda ne pereizdavavshihsya rabot, predshestvovavshih i otchasti legshih v osnovu glavnogo truda ego zhizni. Etot trud, "Klinika psihopatiy", takzhe vklyuchen v nash sbornik. Novatsiey etoy raboty yavlyaetsya printsip izucheniya psihopatiy ne tolko v staticheskoy, no i v dinamicheskoy ipostasi odnoy i toy zhe psihopaticheskoy lichnosti. Trudy Gannushkina s godami ne teryayut svoey aktualnosti i budut interesny ne tolko professionalam, no i vsem, kto interesuetsya prirodoy cheloveka.