[The societal danger from epilepsy patients with nonconvulsive paroxysmal states]

237 patients with epilepsy having committed 248 socially dangerous acts (SDA) during the period of nonconvulsive paroxysmal states (dysphorias, twilight sleep states of consciousness, schizophrenia-like psychoses) were studied by clinical-psychopathological routines. During the above psychopathological periods epileptic patients committed their SDAs on relatively rare occasions. But a high specific weight of aggressive acts having been committed during these very periods including grave ones (against life, health, and dignity of the personality), the incidence of the above states encountered in the clinical practice of dealing with epilepsy patients together with a high probability of their committing SDAs during the periods concerned determine the above contingent of patients in periods of nonconvulsive paroxysmal states as being of high social danger. In all cases the character of SDA was determined from the psychopathological context of psychotic episodes.