[Comparative catamnestic studies of newly hospitalized patients with schizophrenia associated with alcoholism].

The authors analyze the destiny of 289 patients with associated schizophrenia and alcoholism. For the first time they were admitted to the psychiatric hospital in 1948-1951 (period I); 1959-1961 (period II); 1969-1971 (period III), and in 1979-1981 (period IV). The five-year catamnesis has demonstrated that schizophrenic patients abusing alcohol are often admitted to the hospital with paranoid symptomatology, retaining, however, a high enough level of social and labour adaptation, emotions, communicability for a long time. In the course of transition from the first to the fourth period, this group patients demonstrated an increase of the crime rate.