The article is dedicated to doctor’s work psychological aspects. The doctor and the patient relations issues are considered. The psychological factor role in the patient’s perception of his/her disease is specified. The nature of the ill person sufferings and insufficient efficiency of the medicinal therapy alone is demonstrated. The importance of the doctor’s psychotherapeutic influence on the patient and the psychotherapy effect on the patient’s management process are stressed. The psychotherapy positive and negative factors are characterized. Attention is paid to the factors enhancing the doctor’s psychotherapeutic influence, the forms of such influence are described. It is shown that the psychology knowledge as well as the doctor’s art of communicating with the patient are still important for the doctor’s work.