[Social-psychological mechanisms for the development of adolescent alcoholism].

A clinical and pathopsychological analysis of the premorbid personality development in 30 adolescents permitted to describe the "nonalcoholic" path of formation in childhood, adolescence and young age of certain personality traits which are similar to those in patients with developed alcoholism. These symptoms were expressed in a drop of moderations in the activity structure, a reconstruction and simplification of the ierarchy of behavioral motivation, the acquisition by alcohol of the quality of a leading and motivating idea of the entire behaviour. The mechanism of anozognosia in this type of alcoholic patients are demonstrated. The author proposes some measures of social psychological and pedagogical prevention of alcoholism on the stages of premorbid personality development.