[Problems and results in group work with adolescents with early childhood brain damage and without brain damage].

In the course of interviews with the parents of adolescent psychotherapy patients (17-22 years) we received information that aroused the suspicion of brain damage sustained by a third of our patients during early childhood. These patients differed from those without signs of brain damage during early childhood in terms of neurotic structures and their modes of interaction with their families, but not in terms of the results of treatment. Indications of brain damage sustained during infancy are not grounds for pessimism on the part of the psychotherapeut.