Clinical differentiation and prognosis of acute hallucinatory conditions in schizophrenia

: Altogether 61 patients with schizophrenia manifesting for the first time by hallucinatory disorders, playing the leading part in the psychosis picture were examined. 3 typological varieties of acute hallucinatory conditions were described, their comparative characteristics were provided. It has been demonstrated that acute hallucinosis occurred during the disease in different clinical forms: so-called schizophrenic reactions in latent disease (variant I), phases and attacks within the framework of a well-defined attack-like (shift-like) and similar to a recurrent (variant and an attack-like progredient course, approximating to a continuous one (variant III). Problems of a comparative assessment of the further disease course manifesting by different conditions of acute hallucinosis and adequacy of the use of the elaborated typology thereof for prediction and choice of therapy are discussed.