[Disorders of critical thinking in schizophrenic patients].

Basing on the results of clinical and pathopsychological examinations of 87 schizophrenics, the author distinguishes 7 clinical variants of criticism disturbances. These may be presenting in the increasing by severity order as: complete nosognosia, acceptance of some symptoms, shifting the disease to the past, somatization or psychologization of the disease, formal-logical (induced) acceptance of the disease, autoanosognosia, heteroanosognosia. Critical disturbances were found to depend on personality disorders and clinical characteristics of the disease. A differential approach to critical disorders in schizophrenics is important for planning relevant diagnostic, treatment and aftercare measures.