[Dynamics of the main forms of neurosis].

A total of 162 patients (55 with neurasthenia, 53 with hysteric neuroses, 54 with neurosis of obsessive states) have been followed up with emphasis on the evolutional and age-specific characteristics. The authors have established a peculiar nature of the predisposing and pathogenetic factors in the genesis of neuroses and their subsequent dynamics in relation to age (infantile-adolescent, mature, late). The obtained data have made it possible to develop the principles of the pathogenetic therapy of the main forms of neuroses. These principles are based on the mandatory consideration of age-specific features.