[The abnomal personalities in the conception of H. Gruhle]

Understanding of psychopathic personality in the conception of H. Gruhle, a famous German psychiatrist, is analyzed. The issue that the psychopathic personality is accidentally combined with mental illness, psychosis is contradictory to the conception of 'general degenerative constitution'; psychopathology can be isolated and transient. There is absence of age criteria in the diagnosis of psychopathy as well. The initial attempt of H. Gruhle to systematically consider all types of psychopathy was not well substantiated, therefore the author returned to Kraepelin's systematics of psychopathic personality according to prominent traid.