Book review: Sofia Nagornaya, Shamil Khaziev, The duty of a lawyer and the ethics of a psychologist: mental (psychological) torture in the legal system of Russia, Executive Editor A.S. Kovalets, Introductory speech by Academician of RAS A.A. Huseynov. Moscow, LUM Publ., 2020, 172 p. (In Russian).

The book by psychologist Sofia Nagornaya and lawyer Shamil Khaziev entitled “The duty of a lawyer and the ethics of a psychologist: mental (psychological) torture in the legal system of Russia” is devoted to the actual theme of psychological torture. This work is the first interdisciplinary development of this theme in Russia. The book consists of two parts. In the first part, entitled “The duty of a lawyer”, the authors draw attention to the relevance and current dynamics of the development of the general theme of the prohibition of torture, including psychological torture. The second part, entitled “Ethics of the psychologist (international experience)”, continues the development of the theme of psychological torture with the greatest interdisciplinary psychological bias. Special attention in this part is paid to the analysis of international experience in the fight against mental (psychological) torture.