The article is devoted to the problem of the image of a disabled person in the visual arts. It is known that art explores the spiritual life of a person along with psychology. Predominantly, art analyzes with its own methods such aspects of a person’s psychic activity as emotions, personality, and behavior in extreme situations. For the psychoanalytic paradigm, art and, above all, literature, is a subtle way of in-depth analysis of unconscious human life. At the same time, it is of interest to study the peculiarities of the psychology of persons with various deviations in physical and mental development. The psychology of diontogenesis deals with this side of the subjective human life. Art also pays no small attention to this problem of human existence. Images of patients and cripples, beginning with the paintings by P. Bruegel the Elder, are extremely diverse and numerous both in the visual arts and in literature, and nowadays also in cinema. The picturesque images of patients reproduce the sometimes complex