[Interepisode periods in schizoaffective psychoses].

A total of 107 patients with 2--10 attacks of schizoaffective psychosis were studied by a clinico-catamnestical method. The following 3 main variants of the disease are distinguished: cyclothymolike, typical schizoaffective and drawing near shift-like schizophrenia. Clinical types of remissions, typical for schizoaffective psychosis are described: hyperthymasthenic, asthenic, thymopathical and psychopathlike. In the late stages of the disease the duration of lucid periods in most of the cases is shortened while the quality of the remission is lower. At the same time of process-symptoms, which are mainly determined by affective pathology, and not personality abnormality, lead to a disadaptation of the patients.