[Psychogenic onsets of slowly progressive schizophrenia]

The authors studied 26 patients with slowly progressive schizophrenia, where prior to distinct symptoms of a schizophrenic process there was a reactive depression in the framework of the dynamics of psychopathy and in patients with an eventual development of the schizophrenic process. The report contains arguments indicating to the possibility of assessing the period of reactive lability, prior to the manifestation of schizophrenia, as a latent phase in the development of an endogenous process.