[Interpersonal relations in a collective of mentally ill children]

By psychological and sociometrical methods the authors studied the selected objects for communication among the children of different diagnostic categories (schizophrenia, oligophrenia, epilepsy, organic brain lesions, etc.). The group under observation consisted of 218 children (boys aged 7-17 years). It has been demonstrated that interpersonal relations are mainly influenced by personal socio-psychological regularities, while the nozological entity of the patient influences these relations only indirectly, through the influence of such factors as age and level of the general development.