[Psychopathological characteristics of overevaluation tendencies and their significance for prognosis of the course of schizophrenia with its onset in adolescence].

As a result of a clinico-psychopathological study of 72 patients with schizophrenia which occurred at an adolescent and juvenile age and ran its course with psychopathlike disorders, 59 cases of metaphysical intoxication and 13 with pathological fantasies were revealed. It has been established that these disorders have two common interrelated structural elements, namely the overvalued structure and the bent component, which allows one to attribute these elements to a group of disorders designated by the term overvalued bents. The predominance of one or other component is dependent on the disease course. The domination of the overvalued element in the structure of overvalued bents correlated with a sluggish, slow-progressive course, whereas the domination of the bents element with a shift-like one.