[Experience with the use of a complex of therapeutic-rehabilitative measures in rural psychiatric hospitals].

A total of 100 chronic mental patients with schizophrenia, epilepsy and oligophrenia who had stayed in a rural hospital for a long time, were treated with restorative therapy including the complex of influences: psychopharmacological drugs, differential regimens of treatment and supervision, psychotherapy, treatment by employment and entertainment, exercise therapy and occupational therapy. The use of this complex demonstrate the improvement of the mental state in 82 patients, 30 patients could be discharged from the hospital. The role of the psycho-social influences for the mollification of pathological symptomatics characteristics of the chronic contingents of patients is discussed.