[Clinical dynamics of hysterical psychopathy].

The report contains materials of a long-term clinico-catamnestical and social-psychological study of 136 patients with hysterical psychopathy. The main stages of a formation of psychopathy in 3 genetical subgroups ("nuclear", "borderline" and organic) were studied. The authors conducted a typological analysis of hysterical psychopathic personality with an elimination of "obligatory" and "optional" symptoms. Some regularities in the aging dynamics of hysterical psychopathy are given in respect to 3 periods: childhood and adolescency; mature:old age.