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Modern Russia is characterized by dynamism and instability. Social psychiatry and the assessment of the psychogenic factors underlying the most common psychopathological disorders of personality, neurotic and addictive disorders, have particular relevance in Russia, especially its eastern regions, with their multiethnic populations and multicultural lifestyles, combined with immigrant labour. Under these conditions the mental health of the population depends on the structure and content of the microsocial and macrosocial environment: each societal stratum has its own social and ethnic characteristics, which determine, for example, responses to stress, and thereby indirectly determine individual and societal well-being. The effective organization
of psychiatric help in Russia needs a systemic analysis of the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ space of the individual through the prism of national traditions and customs, but incorporating universal values.
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