The Plague Psychiatrist. A frightening and amusing history of psychiatry

Madness appeared long before psychiatry became an independent discipline as you see it now. But attempts to fix the mind were made even then, in ancient times. Don't believe it? Start reading - and I promise you won't be able to put it down until you turn the last page. The history of psychiatry simply cannot be boring - and you will see that for yourself!
Author Maxim Malyavin has been in psychiatry for over a quarter of a century. Known in the Russian-speaking Internet, together with his wife Oksana, also a psychiatrist, he runs the LiveJournal blog "Blog of Good Psychiatrists". He is also the creator and host of the project "Find Your Psychiatrist". He is also the author of a considerable number of psychiatric tales, as well as the popular guidebook "Psychiatry for Samovars and Teapots". And also... Just between us: Do you know the Pacific Ocean? He calmed it down!