[The position of basic psychopathological syndromes in pharmacopsychiatric research]

In recent years the clinical study of pharmacopsychiatric basic reactions has directed our attention to syndromatic complex-structures in the impulse-range, which we have temed as basic syndromes. In so doing, a series of significant psychotic symptoms are being neglected, when these are not of primary pharmacopsychiatric relevance. This applies particularly to such psychopathological conceptions, which in addition prejudice at the same time a nosological coordination and thereby reduce the valency of other parameters. The limiting of basic psychopathological conditions now allow us to probe syndromatically through polarisation (stimulated-inhibited) and further differentiations in the quantitative and qualitative spheres the psychosis-spectrum. The four basic functions discovered hereby (Hyper- and Hypo- as well as Para- and Dys-functions) now show themselves with explicit reference to their nosological independence in various psychopathological planes eg. motoricity, affectivity, perception, power to experience, intrapsychical consumption-modality etc. With a process of this kind in our view not only is psychiatric pathology pharmacotherapeutically determined, but also the medico-curative connection is more exactly definable. Furthermore these results contribute directly to current experimental projects on the use of material for documentation.