Clomipramine-induced Affective Psychosis and Coprolalia in Tourette Syndrome

not perform the act. Another issue that needs discussion is the link between OCD and schizophrenia. Although OC symptoms are documented in association with schizophrenia (Rosen, 1957; Fenton and McGlashan,1986; Berman et al.,1995), phenomenological characteristics of OC phenomena that may predict the onset of schizophrenia is largely unknown. The onset of schizophrenic signs within two years of beginning of OCD of our patient, who had a rare compulsion, however, suggests the possibility that onset of rare compulsive phenomena may be a forerunner of schizophrenia. This issue has to be explored in future studies comprising patients who have uncommon compulsive phenomena.