[Epidemiologic study of psychopathies from the aspect of the sex and age structure of the population].

The author studied psychopathy with the aid of epidemiological materials. The data demonstrated some correlations between the frequency of detecting psychopathy and its incidence in different age groups. The causes of some irregularities of the respective indices are analyzed. The report also contains an analysis of the variability in the frequency of detecting different clinical variants of psychopathy and the influence of sex and age in respect to the psychopathological peculiarities of different forms of psychopathy and their age structure.