[Evaluation of the classification of pathological personality development of exogenous organic origin by the main...

The author has tested the developed classification of the pathological personality development of the exogenic-organic genesis using the method of main components. On the basis of the mathematical processing of clinical symptomatology in 348 patients with various types of the pathological development (asthenic, hysteriform, hypochondriac, explosive) the author has defined three main components: "excitability", "inhibition" and "hypochondriac anger". An analysis of the distributional pattern of types of the pathological personality development in orthogonal planes of three main components has made it possible to establish the adequacy of the proposed classification of the internal structure of the disease and identify the variants appearing as "unifying" and "distinguishing" borderlines between individual types.