[Comparative study of abnormal self-consciousness in mental disorders].

The state of awareness was studied over time in 449 patients with various forms of mental diseases: borderline, endogenic and organic psychoses, delirium tremens and chronic alcoholism. The clinical and psychopathological examinations of patients were supplemented with a number of new and modified methods of research into awareness whose description is given in the paper. It is established that the study into the pathology of awareness expands considerably the clinical examination of patients and contributes to the development of the optimal therapeutic and restorative measures.