[Psychoses in oligophrenics].

Data of clinico-psychopathological examinations of 60 oligophrenics in the state of decompensation are presented. The decompensation took a course of psychotic states of various duration. Attention is paid to the peculiarities of the formation. Data and outcomes of those states, as well as to the role of various factors in their genesis. Data concerning diagnostic differentiation of those states from other diseases, particularly, schizophrenia, involutional and vascular psychoses are presented. The clinical picture of the psychoses, when compared with the results of paraclinical examinations of the patients, allows one to separate these forms out of the total group of psychotic states having a residuo-organic basis, and to regard them as a decompensation of the basic ailment, i.e., residual signs of an early cerebral affection which acquires a number of specific features (in the formation of the psychopathological symptoms) associated with the oligophrenic structure of the intellectual defect. Importance of combined therapy in the system of the curative measures is stressed.