STABLE PSYCHOSIS AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

After many years of psychotic evolution, many patients reach a degree of stability wich, without being the equivalent of autonomy, enables t hem to maintain a psychological and behavior al equilibrium if the psy chiatric and social services may fit for the particularities of each c ase. Thus, psychosis may remain stable within its socio-dependence, if management is adapted to its structure and history, and finally to it s vulnerability and predispositions.