[Changes in juvenile mental disorders in persons discharged from the army].

Based on the clinical and catamnestic examination (with the time of the catamnesis being from 5 to 10 years) of 64 persons discharged from the army with a diagnosis of psychopathy, a study was made of certain characteristics of the formation of juvenile mental disorders and further time-course of changes in the illness. The clinical manifestations that contributed to the discharge from the army appeared to vary. In part of the examined, the status could be regarded as decompensation with steady pathocharacterological reactions and neurotic disorders (in accentuated personalities). The time-course of changes in psychopathy formation depended on its variant, namely on the main "nucleus" of the personality. In unstable and inhibited persons, the time-course of changes in the illness turned out to be the most favourable. The conditions and possible mechanisms of different variants of the time-course of changes in personality disorders have been delineated for the three main clinical groups under study: excitable, inhibited and unstable.