[Influence of pipotiazine on schizophrenia]

This study is an account of thirty cases of schizophrenia treated experimentally in open with Pipotiazine (19366 R.P.), these cases, of the Kraepelin's Dementia Praecox type, in serious or complicated forms necessitating important measures of hospital care. The quantitative and qualitative therapeutic results, very favourable and original, consist in the transformation of these serious forms into simple or latent forms of schizophrenia. The undesirable effects, rare and always regressive, were all the smaller in the measure as the favourable effects were greater, which indicates a precise impact on certain determinants (central control of affectivity and the representation of the autonomous body). Pipotiazine develops a curative process in the personality characterized mainly by the emergence of lucidity, narcissistic euphoria (anti-persecutory and anti-splintering) and by the apprehension of intrapsychic splitting, setting in motion the necessary psychological task of reconstruction.