[The psychopharmacotherapy of anxious-depressive states (the interrelationship of the structure of the comorbidity to the choice of drug therapy)].

The authors examined 65 inpatients aged 20-61 admitted to the clinic with obsessional-phobic and depressive conditions (comorbidity). According to DSM-III-R, the patients suffered from panic and major depressive disorders, dysthymia, atypical depression within schizoaffective disturbance. By the response of the patients to alprazolam (anxiolytic) and fluoketin (antidepressant) given by a special scheme, 3 types of comorbidity of obsessional-phobic and affective disturbances were recognized: 1) prevalent depression, 2) combination of dysthymia with marked obsessional-phobic disorders, 3) overcoming of obsessional-phobic and affective disorders.

[Problem of reactive delusion formation in slowly progressive schizophrenia].

Reactive delirious psychoses in 38 patients with slow-progressive schizophrenia (SPS) were studied. Three clinical variants of SPS were singled out while studying the course and psychopathological features of endogenic process with delirious reactions. Delirious reactions are known to form only in those patients with SPS whose endogenic process had favoured their manifestation in the presence of additional psychogenic factors.

[Conforming delusions].

A number of schizophrenic patients with the delusion homogeneous in its contents (conformant delusion) were examined. The results of the examination have shown that the delusion of this type can develop not only simultaneously, by the inter-induction mechanism, but also by way of transfer, suggestion of the delusional idea, i.e.