[Problem and significance of cross-cultural studies in psychiatry].

Transcultural studies in psychiatry allow for the judgement about differences and prevalence of psychic diseases in the region and an individual ethnic group, characterized by definite features of culture, and for exploration of the effects of these features on the occurrence of one or another psychic abnormality, shaping, pathoplasty and rehabilitation of the patients as well. In this connection, transcultural studies are of great importance for elucidation of the importance of the conditions of social life in the formation of psychopathological phenomena and in the progress of epidemiological studies in psychiatry.