The case of a patient suffering from schizophrenia manifesting as a syndrome in which the paranoid defenses failed to arrest the process, which proceeded toward a rapid regression will be illustrated.

Postpartum schizophrenic and schizophrenic-like psychoses must be considered in a larger frame of reference that includes all psychiatric conditions occurring after childbirth. The relations between pregnancy-labor-puerperium and the occasional occurrence of psychiatric conditions must be investigated.

This chapter presents a general description of schizophrenia, and then discusses the various types.

In this chapter we discuss patients in whom a slow psychodynamic development that appeared directed toward a schizophrenic outcome was diverted, arrested, or slowed down.

The competency of the psychiatrist is often measured by his ability to rule out from the classification schizophrenia many patients who present a schizophrenic-like symptomatology. Although no one can be absolutely sure what course a given patient will follow, a certain group of symptoms and factors tend to occur more frequently in patients who recover; on the other hand, other symptoms and factors tend to occur in patients with a poor outcome.