[The psychopathological structure of paroxysmal psychoautonomic disturbances and its importance for the differential diagnosis and prognosis of different forms of neuroses and depressions].

The psychopathological structure of vegetative paroxysms was studied in different patterns of neuroses (120 cases), endogenous depressions and organic CNS lesions (160 cases). Four types of paroxysms were distinguished depending on the predominance of the definite register of disorders: (1) simple vegetative paroxysms (crises) with the predominance of the vegetative manifestations proper, characteristic for organic CNS lesions and somatogenic; (2) vegetoaffective paroxysms including the vegetative manifestations proper and psychopathological manifestations closely related to the patients' personality and the influence of external factors, characteristic for neurotic disorders; (3) affective-vegetative paroxysms (raptoid conditions) as a unified psychosomatic complex including the protopathic affect of fear, impairment of the general feeling and vegetative functional abnormalities characteristic for MDP and schizophrenia; (4) depersonalization raptuses based on the deranged self-consciousness in the form of different types of depersonalization characteristic primarily for schizophrenia.