Schizophrenia with a favorable course and its significance in forensic psychiatry

A clinico-catamnestical study of 357 schizophrenic patients revealed a necessity for a more careful approach in considering schizophrenic patients responsible. clinically justified such qualifications appeared only in 30.4% (mainly in recurrent schizophrenia and less frequently in attack-like-progressive). A sluggish schizophreinic process irrespective of its rate is a contraindication to acknowledge the patients responsible.