[Features of psychopathologic disorders in schizophrenia complicated by psychogenic reactions]

In order to reveal psychopathological disturbances in schizophrenia appearing under the influence of psychogenic factors, 145 schizophrenic patients with attack-like progressive and continuous forms of development, accompanied by psychogenic reactions were examined. The significant changes in the clinical picture of such conditions expressed in atypical and fragmentary psychopathological signs indicate a deep influence of psychogenic reactions on the pathogenesis of the schizophrenic process. The study demonstrated as well a certain dependence of the psychogenic modification in the clinical picture of schizophrenia on the form of development and character of psychogenic disorders. The results of the study may help to overcome difficulties in differential diagnosis of schizophrenia complicated by psychogenic reactions.