[Onset of slowly progressive hypochondriacal schizophrenia]

Under examination there were 60 patients with slowly progressing hypochondriacal schizophrenia. Two variants of the disease differing in both the manifestations, form and progress rate were specified. Regularities of the time course of the psychopathological disorders classed with these variants were disclosed. In the first variant the local senestalgias were followed by a stable "neurotic-hypochondriacal" pain syndrome and terminated in formation of superdominant hypochondria. In the second variant the clinical picture of the disease that starts from diffuse, migrating senestalgias later expands due to addition of senesthetic and hystero-conversive disorders and terminated in formation of the syndrome of obsessive hypochondria.