[Akinetic catatonia and antidepressants].

Acute akinetic catatonic syndromes three adult male patients suffered from within the chronic evolution of a schizophrenia are discussed. Cases were treated with tricyclical antidepressants, intravenously applied, thus causing the psychomotor symptoms to rapidly disappear. The success of an antidepressant treatment when such presenting problem is at stake leads the author to speculate about the production mechanisms of this problem at the different organization levels of personality.