Law and Society

The most urgent problems of today's state of mental culture of the population are caused by a sharp increase in information and emotional stress, which leads to a significant deterioration of mental health, increased anxiety and alienation. The decline in the level of mental health of the society is evidenced by the inability of a significant part of people to get out of stressful states optimally, the increase in the number of appeals to self-destructive forms of behavior (alcohol, drugs, suicides, etc.), the growth of the number of psychopathologies and forms of deviant behavior. These problems are aggravated by the absence of a system of timely and free specialized psychological assistance to a person in a crisis situation; and the propaganda by the mass media of a way of life that is destructive to the physical and mental state of a person. From a scientific-practical point of view, the problem of delimitation of the norm and pathology naturally takes more concrete forms, but even here it remains extremely difficult.