Czas trwania psychozy a poczucie zmiany siebie chorych na schizofrenię paranoidalną

180 paranoid schizophrenics have been examined by means of the adjective check list ACL. The group has been divided into three subgroups in relation to the duration of the psychosis, and then the current and pre-psychotic self-images have been compared. This allowed to state that: - the patients from all the three subgroups experience self-changes, - the respondents of subgroup I manifest the greatest sense of change, and this is the only subgroup which, on the whole, perceives some positive self-changes, - the respondents of subgroups II and III have similar self-changes, yet in subgroup III it is noted as being more negative. The patients from subgroup II have somewhat better relationships with others and a better contact with their milieu; they seek to understand themselves and others, at times they take care about them, whereas the subjects of subgroup III are most resigned and apathetic, - the sense of self-change in the subjects from the three subgroups is expressed by some essential changes in the results within various scales.It is particularly noteworthy that in all the three scales there were essential changes (Exh, Agg, S-Cn). The patients from all the three subgroups claim that presently they have a lesser need to show aggression and manifestation than they had before they fell ill. Therefore they have a greater need for self-control.