[Clinical aspects of the residual disturbances in a favorable course of obsessive neurosis].

Using the clinico-catamnestic method the authors examined residual neurotic states in 36 patients with a history of obsessional neurosis. The residual neurotic disorders manifested psychopathologically in the form of isolated rudiments of the obsessive-phobic syndrome combined frequently with some effaced vegetative, asthenic, and affective disturbances. Despite their inertness and many-year persistence the residual neurotic disorders showed a tendency to subsidence. Clinical differentiation between the residual states on the one hand, and neurotic development, slowly-progressing schizophrenia, and cyclothymia with obsessions on the other was carried out.