[The attitude of the mentally ill patient to hospitalization and to treatment and recovery procedures of the rehabilitation department].

The attitude of the patient to hospitalization and therapeutic procedures employed in the rehabilitation department has been investigated in a series of 87 mental patients. The orientation of the patient with regard to participation in the therapeutic process has been found to correlate with the patient's mental activity and emotional-volitional potential as well as with his empathic properties and attitude to hospitalization. The patient's attitude toward hospitalization was related to the structure of his attitudes toward specific types of rehabilitation procedures. Two general therapeutic orientations of mental patients characterized by their attitude toward admission to a rehabilitation department as toward "institutionalization" or "rehabilitation" have been determined.