[The results of a study of speech disorders in schizophrenic patients using one of the variants of the projective method].

The study of speech disorders in schizophrenics led the authors to the conclusion that defects in speech and thinking activity in them are related to the sphere of communicative competence and interpersonality cooperation. Psycholinguistic methods of such defects investigation is proposed. A relationship was found between the type of schizophrenia course and the patient's response to speech stimulus. Strangeness of schizophrenics speech results from directive abnormalities, i. e. from the patients' rigidity to self-expression.