[The rehabilitation of the mental patient cannot disregard his family's involvement]

Rehabilitation, or rather the recovery of the mentally sick, often runs into serious difficulties precisely at the time when the disease state seems to be over. The family is one of the essential aspects of this problem because it is the family is traumatised by the disease of one of its members. The life of the family is so upset that it unconsciously opposes his recovery. The patient's problems upon his return to the family are further exacerbated by the pretext of the impossibility of living with somebody "different". Hence the need, independently of the patient's condition, for the members of his family to be prepared for his return to the family so as to guarantee him living room and conditions required for a relatively independent life. This adaptation of the family environment must be pursued right from the beginning of the disease.