[A study on parent-children relations in families with adolescent patients who present with different symptomathology].

The first part of the article deals with the description of the dynamics of children-parents relations that influence human development and the process of arising mental disturbances. In the second part, the author presents one of the research projects on the parents-children relationship in families of adolescent patients hospitalised due to various psychiatric diagnoses. The analysis of obtained data confirmed research hypothesis about differences in family dynamics between groups of families of psychotic adolescent and non-psychotic ones.