[Use of Hunperdal Richter in psychiatry].

Pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia can be regarded effective from the 1950-ies, by using "first generation antipsychotics" (FGA)--as now we call them. Effective complex pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and sociotherapy (psychiatric rehabilitation) changed the process and outcome of schizophrenic illness. Use of "second generation antipsychotics" (SGA) became widely used in the 1990-ies. They are effective in the therapy of schizophrenic and bipolar patients, according to meta-analyses of the literature and in practice. In bipolar cases SGA are effective in treatment of acute mania, and in the maintenance phase, as mood stabilizers. Risperidone is one of the best, most succesfull SGA. The authors present the use of generic risperidone, Hunperdal-Richter, in five cases. Four schizophrenic and one bipolar patients are described. After improving the positive psychotic signs maintenance therapy was successful. Quality of life, therapy adherence get better and some patients participate in psychotherapy, also.