[The clinical and therapeutic considerations in psychopathic states]

The authors presents a series of patients with psychopathic conditions of dyscrinic and post-processive origin. In two cases the syndrome was associated to evolutive schizophrenia and an affective disease with potential handicapping risk. In another three cases there was gonadal insufficiency, spasmophilia and hypophyseal adenoma. The differential diagnosis is discussed, of psychopathoid conditions, in contrast with other psychopathies, and the value of modern means of diagnosis is stressed. A synopsis is also presented of the therapy currently employed, as well as considerations on the evolution and prognosis of psychopathoid conditions.