[Disorders of self-consciousness in schizophrenic patients with depressive and depressive-paranoid syndromes].

Self-consciousness disorders were studied in 48 schizophrenics (60 attacks) with depressive and depressive-paranoid syndromes. Depressive states were accompanied by impairment of the sensory-perceptive component of the patients' self-consciousness expressed in an altered perception of the "ego" and in disruption of the integrity and activity of the "ego image". Depressive paranoid states are characterized by stage-by-stage recovery of self-consciousness which undergoes complete destruction at the height of an attack. Self-consciousness disorders are analyzed at different stages of disease regression.