[Differential neuroleptic treatment of schizophrenic psychoses in puerperium: advantages of the atypical neuroleptic clozapine].

Clozapine is an atypical neuroleptic drug characterised by specific pharmacological properties and clinical side effects, which are different from those observed with conventional neuroleptics such as drugs of the phenothiazine or butyrophenone classes. This report suggests a new clinical indication for clozapine, based on its negligible influence on plasma prolactin levels: the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenic psychoses in the post-partum period and in patients suffering from acute mastitis.