[Variations in the course of adolescent attack-like schizophrenia in the light of long-term follow-up].

By means of clinico-catamnestical examination, all schizophrenic patients who were admitted for the first time to the clinics of the Institute of Psychiatry from 1962--1965 were eventually studied. The disease in adolescnecy manifested with an acute florid attack. The studies detected a significant percentage (42,0%) of cases with a favorable outcome, following the adolescent period and a markedly reduced clinical picture of the successive attacks. The quality of the remissions was better and there was a good sociolabor adaptation of these patients. The paper contains a description of the typology of the different development of adolescent attacklike schizophrenia, based on the differences in the degree of the process progression. The traits of the initial stages, the picture of the manifest attacks and eventual remissions in each of the variants of schizophrenia were reconstructed. The question of grounded decisions concerning the prognostication on the basis of such studies is set forth.