[Latent endogenous depressions. II. Clinical systematics]

On the basis of clinico-catamnestical study of 384 patients with cyclothymia (96 cases), schizoaffective psychoses (104 cases) and shift-like schizophrenia (184 cases) with the syndrome of larvate depression the author describes the autodevelopment of syndromes beginning from astheno-vegetative, cenestopathic up to delusional-hypochondriacal. Due to the obtained data and literature data the author bases the clinico-scientific continuity of the problem of larvate depressions with the most ancient problem of hypochondria. The independency of larvate depressions as a separate disease is being denied.