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TWO CASES ILLUSTRATING THE COMBINATION OF AFFECTIVE AND SCHIZOPHRENIC SYMPTOMS

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.83.2.243

The review of two patients presenting the combination or alter-nation of manic-depressive and schizophrenic modes of reaction.

The constitution of the patients may have determined to a certain extent the type of their reaction, but early environment and experiences had probably influenced their stability and left their stamp on the later psychoses.

A fatalistic emphasis on the congenital endowment is less useful than attention to the moulding environmental factors, the study of which encourages effort in the direction both of prophylaxis and treatment.

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