title: [Clinical significance of "empty symbolism" in pictograms].
abstract: A study of the pictogramms in 500 normals, 150 schizophrenic, 50 neurotic and 70 patients with late sequelae of brain trauma allowed the following conclusion: "futile symbology" as some other disorders of thinking described in schizophrenia is not pathognomic for this disease. Not being symbology in the general sense of this word, "futile symbology" reflects a drop in motivation when accomplishing the tests, and a formal approach of the examinee to such testing.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009440:Neurasthenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D011386:Projective Techniques; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis; D012886:Skull / Q000293:injuries*
vernacular_title: Klinicheskoe znachenie "pustoi simvoliki" v piktogramme.