[Affective disorders in patients with paroxysmally progressive schizophrenia in a psychotraumatic situation].

Affective disorders associated with a psycho-traumatizing situation have been studied in 82 patients with attack-type progressive schizophrenia undergoing inpatient forensic psychiatric examination at the All-Union Research Institute of General and Forensic Psychiatry. The results have shown that patients with attack-type progressive schizophrenia present in this situation affective disorders varying in depth and clinical characteristics which mask endogenic symptomatology and hinder forensic psychiatric assessment of these states in some cases. The following abnormalities have been defined as a result of the study: reactive conditions (psychogenic affective responses and reactive psychoses), psychogenic exacerbations of schizophrenia with such predominant clinical manifestations as affective disorders and attacks of schizophrenia taking the course of phase-affective conditions.