A contribution to the course and prognosis of the atypical psychosis

The course and the prognosis of atypical psychosis were discussed on 58 cases. In contrast to schizophrenics, the relative length of admission was quite short. It seemed there was a certain difference in the clinical pictures between the late and early onset groups. We recognized two contradictory tendencies to repeat similar pictures to a certain extent on one hand and to indicate age-specific properties on the other in the course of psychosis. In a few patients, a compensatory myth formation was observed. And finally, some patients began to display moderate defect symptoms, but the group with defects could be differentiated from the group without defects from the genetical as well as from the clinical viewpoints.