[Day hospital and night dispensary as intermediate links in the system of psychiatric services]

The author considers the peculiarities of day and night hospitals as centers of partial hospitalization which have independent functions in the differentiated system of psychiatric service and along with this permits to solve tasks more effectively which are raised by comprehensive practice before the system as a whole. The general principles of the organization of day and night hospital activities are formulated and advantages of their use in the treatment of early prepsychotic manifestations of schizophrenia and the initial forms of mental diseases are substantiated.