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illness, which deprives the person of the opportunity to be aware of his actions and due to emotionally - volitional or
intellectual pathology to guide them during the period of the crime [3, p. 5].
In the psychiatric literature, the content of mental anomalies is defined somewhat differently. For example, the
German psychiatrist G. Binder included among such anomalies such forms of functional anomalies in which
disintegration is expressed mainly in the mental sphere, where mental factors are leading in the general system of painful
phenomena. These violations are mainly quantitative deviations from the norm [4, p.148].
According to Y.M. Antonyan and S.V. Borodin, when trying
to determine mental anomalies, the following
circumstances should be taken into account. Mental abnormalities include, first of all, structural or functional
abnormalities of a stable nature, caused by disorders of prenatal development, for example, oligophrenia and nuclear or
constitutional psychopathies. Further, such anomalies can include marginal psychopathies, pathocharacterological
developments, residual phenomena of organic damage to the central nervous system of traumatic etiology, etc.
It should be noted that mental abnormalities contribute to the emergence and development
of such character
traits as irritability, emotional imbalance, hot temper, anger, cruelty, aggressiveness. Mental abnormalities contribute to
a decrease in the level of control over volitional actions. They interfere with the normal life of a person, concentrated
engagement in certain types of activity.
Of course, one cannot but agree with the opinion of the above authors on the concept of mental anomalies.
However, it must be borne in mind that mental anomaly is primarily a medical concept, and it belongs to the number of
problems studied by medicine. Within the framework of legal science, the concept of "mental anomaly" is applied insofar
as a mental anomaly is related to the socially dangerous behavior of a person who has committed a socially dangerous
act. It should be said that the study of this phenomenon by psychiatrists is of great help to the criminological study of
mental anomalies. However, as you know, for many centuries, priests, monks, philosophers, anyone, but not doctors,
were engaged in mentally ill patients. The patients were stoned, burned at the stake, and imprisoned for life.
Mental
patients who could be used as cheap labor were auctioned off. A similar inhuman attitude towards the mentally ill took
place even in the middle of the last century. An example of this is the 200,000 mentally ill people killed in Nazi Germany.
By the beginning of the 20th century, the clinic of many mental patients was thoroughly studied, the symptoms
and syndromes of many mental disorders and mental abnormalities, as well as the method of their treatment, became
known. Assessment of neuropsychic diseases and anomalies has become traditional for many works on psychiatry [5, p.
292]. The development of the theory of psychopathies in the first half of the 20th century in Russian psychiatry is primarily
associated with the research of N.B. Gannushkin and representatives of his school. In the early 70s,
the term
"psychopathy" in the psychiatric literature was replaced by - "personality disorder".
To date, psychiatric science offers various options for classifying mental abnormalities. The most developed is
the grouping according to complex criteria.
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