[Depersonalization as a developmental disorder of self-consciousness].

The comparison of psychopathological and age characteristics of depersonalization was made for 114 schizophrenic patients. It has been concluded that depersonalization syndrome may be viewed as a developmental or dysontogenetic disorder of self-consciousness. In the majority of the cases depersonalization arises in adolescence which is the most critical period in the development of self-consciousness. Typical psychopathological features of depersonalization correspond to typical features of puberty identity crisis.