[Comparative-nosologic characteristics of the fantasizing syndrome in the pubertal crisis period (forensic-psychiatric aspect)].

A comparative study of the syndrome of fantasy-making was carred out in 65 juvenile delinquents (psychopathy, early organic lesions of the brain, schizophrenia). The authors elucidated nosologically nonspecific signs of pathological fantasy-making (persistent inclination, superworship content of fantasies, readiness to transformation, incorrigible behaviour, etc.), peculiarities of the clinical picture and the time-course of the syndrome in each of the groups. A close correlation was found between the content of fantasies and the nature of antisocial behaviour of adolescents.