[1] The author of The Forensic Psychopathology, Serbsky thought delinquency to have no congenital basis, considering it to be caused by social reasons.

Vladimir Petrovich Serbsky was born in 1858 in Bogorodsk (now Noginsk, Moscow Region) in the family of a zemstvo doctor.

The local zemstvo offered him a trip to Austria, where he worked for almost a year at the Vienna Psychiatric Clinic under the direction of T.

In 1891, Serbsky defended his thesis, “Forms of mental disorders described under the name of catatonia” for the degree of Doctor of Medicine and in 1892 received the title of privat-docent.

In 1902 he was appointed extraordinary professor and director of the psychiatric clinic, and in 1903 he headed the Department of Psychiatry of Moscow University, which he directed until 1911.

[3] In 1905, Serbsky made a report in which he showed that the situation created in the country promotes the growth of mental illnesses.

After the congress, he published a book in which he considered the role of revolution as a factor influencing the change in the consciousness of a large number of people.

In 1913 Serbsky publicly denounced unsound examination of government-inspired anti-Semitic case M. Bayliss, who was unjustly accused of murdering a boy for ritual purposes.

The letter came too late, the scientist was already terminally ill. Vladimir Petrovich lived out his last days in poverty, since he retired without earning his pension.

Gradually, Serbsky formulated the basic principles of the methodology by which psychiatrists could now determine the degree of the patient's sanity, that is, the ability to critically evaluate his actions.

[3] Serbsky supported and developed A. W. Freze's and V. X. Kandinsky's positions on the significance of the psychological understanding of mental disorders for the correct solution to forensic psychiatric questions.

X. Kandinsky developed the need to establish the psychological criterion of insanity by law with the greatest conviction- I can only align myself with the views of this talented psychologist.”[2] Serbsky first proved the inconsistency of K. Kalbaums's doctrine of catatonia as an independent disease.

In 1912, Serbsky organized and headed the “Moscow Psychiatric Circle of Small Fridays,” which became one of the first organizational structures composed and led by psychoanalysts (M. M. Asatiani, E. N. Dovbnya, N. Ye.

[3] Serbsky developed a modern form of sponsorship for psychiatric patients, was one of the founders of the Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry after S. S. Kosakov and the Russian Union of Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists,[6] he was an active participant in all psychiatric and Pirogov congresses, delivering program papers on problems of forensic psychiatry, participated in many complex and forensically responsible psychiatric examinations in cases that caused great public outcry, boldly defending his own-always clinically sound- opinion.