[Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: remission with anti-obsessive treatment].

Abstract

Despite obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia have been described for over 60 years, their clinical significance and treatment still remain unclear. Described below is a schizophrenic patient with obsessional thinking and compulsive rituals who markedly reduced the obsessive-compulsive symptoms after fluoxetine was added to neuroleptic treatment.