Current problems of schizophrenia

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a "psychiatric sphinx," which, with its majestic enigma, draws the best minds of psychiatrists of all countries to it and deprives them of peace-"ignorabimus"-that is approximately the final chord of the ninth volume of Bumke's manual of psychiatry devoted to schizophrenia. Soviet psychiatrists, far removed from agnosticism and the pessimistic, decadent moods of the West, felt particularly shocked by Bumke's "hopeless volume IX" and reacted with a "combative, optimistic appeal"-to storm and take the schizophrenia fortress by solving the mystery of this "sphinx of psychiatry. This is the basic character of the 1932 conference on schizophrenia, of the reports made at that conference.

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