[Sanatorium-rehabilitation department--new organizational form of department for rehabilitation therapy of mental patients].

The author describes his personal experience in the joint treatment of patients with chronic forms of schizophrenia and patients who were registered in neuropsychiatric dispensaries (for endogenous psychoses in the past, organic brain lesions of a different etiology, etc) in one department and referred during the phase of an unstable remission for the so-called sanatorial treatment. The author comes to the conclusion that departments organized according to this new principle have a possibility of creating an effective system of rehabilitative therapy for mental patients and considers it feasible to organize in mental hospitals sanatorium-rehabilitative departments.