[Clinical and catamnesic study of slowly progressing, juvenile schizophrenia]

A clinico-catamnestical study of 154 patients demonstrated, that following 10--15 years after their initial state it was first evaluated as sluggish schizophrenia with pseudoneurotic, psychasthenia-like, depersonalizational and obliterated affective disorders, the prognosis in such cases was relatively favorable. In the majority of the cases even during remote periods the disease had a slowly progressive character of the process. In half of the cases there was a tendency to a reduction of the positive disturbances, a compensation of the personality defect and distinct signs of social and working readaptation, after the adolescent period was behind.