[Concerning a single variety of intermediate or "mixed" psychoses]

A clinical follow-up examination was conducted in 61 patients (10 males and 51 females) with schizoaffective psychoses and a social and personality preservation, where the disease persisted not less than 10 years and where the amount of acute schizoform attacks did not exceed 3 years. It was established that the combination of some pathogenetic and clinical signs may lead to a formation of a special "intermediate" psychoses with "schizophrenic" symptomatology in the attacks and an absence of defect symptoms in the outcome of the disease, when there is a slight decline of the vital tone in a preserved personality kernel.