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“Personalities are like impressionist paintings, from a distance each person is a whole, painted in individual strokes, but when viewed closely, each person is striking in a complex combination of moods, motives, perceptions and his cognitive abilities.” Theodore MillonI want to dedicate the opening of my page on the b17 website to the one who inspired me to do this - Theodore Millon. In the future, I plan to introduce you, dear colleagues, to his achievements, books and textbooks, diagnostic methods and articles. So, Who are you, Mr. Theodore Millon? You burst into my life brightly and excitingly! Having awakened in me a keen interest and genuine scientific passion, you made me want to know as much as possible about you! My gratitude to you is very great, although now I am deprived of the opportunity to express it to you personally, but I definitely want to do it now and in exactly this way .You have captivated me, Mr. Millon, with your manner of expressing your thoughts, your views on a person’s individuality, diagnostic techniques, your, and only your, humor, optimistic approach to life, amazing life experience, and I join the tender, loving reviews of your children and colleagues about you! Interesting story, I have been in psychology for a long time, I have a good intellectual and professional stock of knowledge, I have rich therapeutic and life experience. I received an excellent professional education, but you, Theodore Millon, appeared in my life only a year ago, that Theodore Millon, Ph.D., a leading theorist in the field of personality psychology, who is also called the “grandfather” of personality theory. You, who wrote more than 80 articles and 30 books in the field of psychology and psychopathology. You, who at the age of 26 became the head of Allentown State Hospital. You, who received a doctorate from the University of Kentucky in 1954 on the topic of “Authoritarian Personalities.” You, who was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Personality Disorders. You who served as the first inaugural President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. You who held Professor Emeritus status at Harvard Medical School, the University of Miami and the University of Illinois ( University of Illinois). You, who initiated and led the working groups for the revision of DSM-III, DSM-IV. You, who, with the support of colleagues and the Pearson company (PEARSON), created the Institute for Advanced Study in Personology and Psychopathology. You , who has received three of the highest awards in psychology: the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Outstanding Contributions to Applied Psychological Science, the American Psychological Foundation (APF) Gold Medal for Achievement in Applied Research, and the US Presidential Citation in 2000. So why did the meeting happen? just now? This question torments me. In my life I am a very happy person. On my life's path there were wonderful teachers - Svetlana Solovyova, Dmitry Leontiev, Igor Kadyrov, Patrick Casement, Gilbert Diatkin, Paolo Fonda, Gary Goldsmith, Otto Kernberg ), Antonius Stufkens, Martin Seligman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. And, of course, I studied from the works of many psychologists and psychoanalysts, who have become classics, and the works of Sigmund Freud occupy a special place among them. Many people are familiar with Freud’s works, or at least have heard of them. His works have been published in many countries and translated into dozens of languages ​​around the world. But, the name of Theodore Millon is still known only to a narrow circle of psychologists, at least in our country. I want to correct this injustice, at least to a first approximation. Mr. Theodore Millon, your textbooks are included in