[Personality structure mosaicism as a stage in the development of psychopathies]

An appliance of the principle of dynamics in relation to studies of psychopathy (164 cases) permitted to detect the periods of mosaicity in their formation and subsequent development. The authors describe some polymorphic phenomena in the clinical picture during the first period (complexity of the pathocharacterological structure, neurotic signs, the traits of the affective pathology, etc.). It was also possible to speak of some aging limits in the period of mosaicity and to demonstrate dependence of the clinical content on the genetical or clinical type of psychopathy. The report contains some differential diagnostical criteria or psychopathy of this age stage with psychopath-like conditions of a schizophrenic or organic genesis. Some main recommendations are given for a forensic-psychiatric evaluation of the described states.