[The civil legal procedural competence of schizophrenia patients].

Discusses the methodological problems of forensic psychiatric evaluations of mental disorders in the structure of the most incident endogenous psychosis, schizophrenia, under conditions of expert evaluation in a civil process. Presents criteria permitting the differentiation between pathological states.

[Structural and dynamic characteristics of patients with oligophrenia at a forensic-psychiatric clinic].

In a comparative structure-dynamic investigation of 250 oligophrenic patients at the debility stage the results of forensic-psychiatric evaluation of responsibility depended on the dynamic shifts. The complexes of symptoms of psychogenic decompensation and reactive states were singled out that were observable in debile patients. The criteria are given for the forensic evaluation of these states.