The Quarterly Journal of St. Philaret’s Institute

With the assistance of mythological and cultural-historical data the article examines the problem of reflexive selfconsciousness formation. The author emphasizes its tragicalness because it holds in itself the knowledge of the finiteness of a man – his mortality. That is why activity of a doctor – fight with death – is doomed. Tragic collisions of this fact are specified – both social and evident through personal fates of psychiatrists. A term “Psychiatrist cross” is introduced. The author comes to the conclusion that the calling of a doctor is Christian in its essence – to die for somebody else.