RESISTANT PSYCHOSIS TREATED SUCCESSFULLY BY INDOKLON(1, 2, 3)

A case is presented in which a patient's delusions, which had been resistant to ECT and tranquilizers, cleared up rapidly after only one Indoklon treatment. Indoklon, therefore, is an important somatic treatment in psychiatry because, although it is not yet generally available(6), it has distinct advantages: it is preferred over ECT by most patients(3), it does not require a long course of treatment or costly hospitalizations (3), it can be done as an outpatient or office procedure, it is safer than ECT(1, 2), and, as shown by this report, it is of dramatic benefit in some cases resistant to other forms of psychiatric treatment.

The cooperation of the Medical Research Foundation of Philadelphia in providing the Indoklon used in this study is gratefully acknowledged.