[Clinico-genetic analysis of sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia]

Abstract

The clinicogenealogical method using a genetico-mathematic analysis was employed to examine 50 probands with sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia (126 relatives of the first degree kinship). A study was made of the structure of familial accumulation of polar hypochondriac conditions (in continuum) of the varieties of sluggish schizophrenia: senestohypochondrias (25 families of probands) and neurotic hypochondrias (25 families of probands). The clinical polymorphism of sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia correlated with the differences in accumulation, mainly by varieties of sluggish schizophrenia and personality abnormalities. It is concluded that analysis of the structure of familial accumulation in non-delirious hypochondriac conditions favours their typological differentiation, thereby enhancing the reliability of the clinical systematization.