[Features of the "Zeigarnik effect" in psychiatric clinical practice].

The "Zeigarnic effect" is well known in psychology. It consists in the fact that incomplete actions are remembered better than complete ones. The conducted study concerned 94 individuals: 30 normals and 64 schizophrenic patients (34 with pseudoneurotic and 30 with affective-delusional syndromes). The ratio of reproduced incomplete and complete tasks in the group of normals was equal to 1,41, while in the group of schizophrenic patients with a pseudoneurotic syndrome it amounted to 1,29 and in patients with an affective delusional syndrome to 1,1. The behaviour of the examinees during the experiment was distinctly different. The results of the studies point to disorders in the motivational sphere of schizophrenic patients and is especially marked in patients with an affective-delusional syndrome.