[Clinical picture of atypical alcoholic psychoses].

Results of a long-term clinico-catamnestical study of 489 patients with atypical alcoholic psychoses indicate that only the following cases develop atypically; a) where in the framework of separate attacks there is a combination of verbal hallucinosis, diverse more or less systematized delusional ideas (including delusions of influence), separate traits of the syndrome of psychic automatisms and oneiroid episodes; b) where there is a transformation (atypization) of the syndromokinesis from attack to attack; c) where there is a continuation of the process of atypization up to a development of signs of partial or total alcoholic or alcoholic-organic dementia.