[Clinical limits of schizoid psychopathy].

The paper deals with a study of 130 patients with psychopathy (among them 50 with schizoid psychopathy and 80 with other forms of psychopathy). The examined contingent demonstrated a similarity in the clinical picture with schizophrenic patients. The purpose of the study was to differentiate schizoid psychopathy from the sluggishly developing variants of schizophrenic and from schizophrenoform symptoms in the clinical picture of other forms of psychopathy. The main stages of schizoid psychopathy formation as well as the clinical symptoms, which may be assessed as differential criteria, are described.