Today it is obvious that inpatient psychotherapy in Russia will strengthen its position in the health care system and develop various specialised forms. One should extensively use scientific developments, in order to reduce the length of stay at the hospital owing to the worldwide tendency in the increase in the costs of any inpatient treatment and in the efficiency of psychotherapy. Accordingly the scientific foundations of psychotherapy, the criteria of its effectiveness, the use of complex, intensive, and integrative psychotherapeutic approaches, etc need to be developed. Inpatient psychotherapy, more than any other branch of psychotherapy, is dependent on further development of clinical psychotherapy and of its technology with the goal to integrate both in- and outpatient approaches into the unified system of psychotherapeutic care. To develop inpatient psychotherapy in the future, it is most expedient to carry out joint research worldwide, taking into account the influence of social, cultural, and economic specificity of different countries upon the future of the inpatient psychotherapy.