[Clinical picture, therapy and rehabilitation of patients with slowly-progressive (psychopath-like) schizophrenia with a loss of work capacity].

A clinico-statistical study of therapy and rehabilitation of 37 patients with psychopath-like schizophrenia selected by the method of blanket sampling using a criterion of the loss of the working ability within 12 months and more showed high efficiency of comprehensive medicated and intensive socio-rehabilitative action (industrial therapy). The role of the stimulating component in the spectrum of psychotropic activities of neuroleptics in the treatment of psychopath-like schizophrenia was ascertained. The result of the work was the employment of 20 of the 37 patients studied. It was shown in 37 randomly selected disabled patients with slowly progressive (psychopath-like) schizophrenia that stimulating neuroleptics played a definite role in including methods of intensive socio-occupational therapy into the management of these patients.