Mood congruent and mood incongruent psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorders. Preliminary results for 79 patients

In a preliminary sample of 79 bipolar patients hospitalized for affective e pisode (39 manics, 32 depressives, 4 mixed states, 4 schizo-affetive bipola r type), 36.7% presented with psychotic symptoms (24% mood-congruent, and 1 2,6% non mood-congruent). For Emil Kraepelin, psychotic symptoms were of ve ry little value in the course of manic-depressive illness, Nevertheless, th ere is currently a great interest for the importance of these mood-congruen t or non mood congruent psychotic symptoms for the clinical subtyping, gene ric, course, prognosis mid above all therapeutic aspects of the disorder.