[Psycholinguistic studies of the dreams of children and adolescents with neurotic disorders].

78 patients with neurotic disorders, 46 patients with cerebral organic pathology (tumors of the brain, epilepsy) and 25 healthy individuals were examined. Their age was 10-17 years. Clinical, paraclinical, experimental-psychologic, psycholinguistic methods were used. Psycholinguistic analysis of the reports concerning the dreams of the children and juveniles was performed by means of original computer system of the analysis of the meaning of the texts and by specially elaborated scheme for categorization of the words. Neurotic patients had a significant quantitative and qualitative peruliarity of speech which reflected stable changes in patients' personality concerning the sphere of meaning.