[Clinical picture, differential diagnosis and forensic psychiatric assessment of the delirious variant of the Kandinskiĭ-Clérambault syndrome in patients with schizophrenia].

Using clinico-psychopathological methods of examination the authors studied 93 schizophrenics with a delirious variant of the Kandinsky-Clérambaut syndrome who had committed violent antisocial actions (VAA). It has been ascertained that peculiarities of the clinical course at the time when the VAA was committed reflect the stages of the development of the syndrome: the initial stage, the stage of delirious personification of psychic automatisms and the stage of involution of the delirious variant of the Kandinsky-Clérambaut syndrome. It has been established that the more acute the psychosis the higher the significance in the psychopathological mechanisms of VAA of clinical manifestations of the syndrome and lower the role of social and personality factors.