The article has as its object to analyze, on the basis of materials of various textbooks, articles, reports and dissertations of the Soviet period, a number of problematic topics discussed in National theory of psychiatry. And on the basis of implemented analysis to point out inherent antinomianism of methodological approaches, key concepts and therapeutic practices. The article systematically analyses a number of antinomic oppositions such as biological and social, the norm and the pathology, the health and the illness, the physician and the patient. Within these framework, on the one hand, is manifested the initial antinomianism of subject of psychiatry subject in general i.e. the human being as bio-social entity and on the other hand, the specific methodological directive exactly adopted by the Soviet theoretical psychiatry and entirely conditioned by the Marxist conceptions of human essence as the totality of social relations. The conclusion. The number of deductions is made. The debatable assumption is expressed that opens perspective for further studies: despite persistent criticism and permanent attempts to distance from the Western tradition, development of the Soviet philosophy of psychiatry in many respects was determined by similar range of problems and by attempt to resolve analogous methodological difficulties.

philosophy of psychiatry, methodology, the Soviet psychiatry, antinomianism, dialectical materialism, biological physiological approach, socio-psychological approach.