[Typology of delusional hypochondriacal states in schizophrenia]

Abstract

On the basis of clinico-psychopathological examinations of 70 schizophrenics with delusional hypochondriacal states a classification of the states including these disorders is suggested. Depending on the mechanism of the delusion formation syndromes with interpretative, mixed, and sensational formation of the delusion are differentiated. It is shown that while passing from the first syndrome to the third one the depressions get more intense and their structure changes; the scope and degree of sensor disturbances increase, and the persistence and systematization of the hypochondriacal ideas diminish: all this proceeds coincidentally with the increase of the sensational constituent of the delusion formation.