[Therapeutic pathomorphosis of affective psychoses during the process of long-term treatment with lithium salts]. / Terapevticheskii patomorfoz affektivnykh psikhozov v protsesse dlitel'nogo lecheniia soliami litiia.

The authors report of some results in a long-term (not less than 3 years) prophylactical administration of lithium preparations in 123 patients wiht manic-depressive psychosis and with favourable recurrent schizophrenia. The data contain some considerations in relation to variants of fractional, even and a partial reduction of the psychopathological phasic signs. In 28 patients in the interphasic period there was an anesthetic subdepression. The achieved results are analyzed by the authors from the point of view of a positive and negative therapeutical pathomorphosis.