[The role of parents in the treatment of psychotic children].

Five psychotic children and their families were examined with regard to the development of the disease and the diagnostic and therapeutic steps. The psychic disorders of the child were recognized by the parents very early, but were denied because of own feelings of guilt. Therapeuts tend to interpret this denial as a reference to disorders of the family system. Instead of taking in the parents in the therapeutic process, they more or less exclude them of the treatment of the child. The development of a trustful therapeutic relationship between parents, child and therapeut is thus rendered more difficult.