[The actual image of male patients with paranoid schizophrenia in perception of the patients themselves and their parents].

Aim: The aim of this study was to answer following questions: Does the self-image of male schizophrenics differ from the image their parents have? Do parents judge their sons more negatively or more positively than they themselves do? Are opinions of the mothers and fathers different or consistent?

Methods: 30 unmarried male patients with paranoid schizophrenia (diagnosis based on ICD-10) were included in the study. All subjects lived with their parental families. In all cases, families were complete.

[Personality changes in paranoid schizophrenics in perception of patients and their parents].

Aim: The aim of the paper was to describe and compare personality changes in paranoid schizophrenics in the perception of patients and their parents.

Method: 50 paranoid schizophrenics (ICD-10) and their parents were tested using the ACL test. Patients completed the ACL test using instructions "I am" and "Before the illness I was", while for the parents it was: "My child is" and "Before the illness my child was.

[Self-concept in schizophrenics--a survey of studies].

The article is a survey of studies concerned with self-concept, self-esteem and self-acceptance in schizophrenics.The aim of the paper is to present current research on self-image (the term 'self-concept' has been increasingly used in recent studies) although without critical analysis. In specialist literature one can distinguish three basic trends of research concerned with the relationships between the self-concept in schizophrenics and the illness process.

[Parent-child relations and sense of control in the perception of girls with anorexia].

Aim: The aim of this study was to look for any relationships between the parent-child relations and sense of control in the perception of girls with anorexia.

Method: The examined group consisted of 30 girls aged 15-23 years, diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (ICD-10) and 30 healthy girls of the same age (15-23). Parent-child relations were examined using the Parent-Child Relations Questionnaire (PCR, A.

[Interdependencies between the ideal self-image and the ideal image of parents in women with anorexia nervosa].

Aim: The aim of this work was to answer the following question: in the perception of patients, what kind of dependencies occur between ideal images of women with anorexia and ideal images of their mothers and fathers. TEST GROUP AND METHOD: The examined group consisted of 30 patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, undergoing treatment at the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical University in Lublin. The average age of the examined females was 21 years.

[Interdependencies between the actual self-image and the actual image of parents in women with anorexia nervosa].

Aim: The aim of the study was to answer the following research problem: what dependencies occur between actual images of women with anorexia and actual images of their mothers and fathers in their daughters' perception? TEST GROUP AND METHOD: The examined group consisted of 30 patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, undergoing treatment at the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical University in Lublin. The average age of the examined females was 21 years. All patients had a secondary level education.

[Interdependencies between anxiety versus premorbid and present self-image in patients with paranoid schizophrenia].

Aim: The aim of this work was to determine the relationship between anxiety versus premorbid and present self-image in patients with paranoid schizophrenia hospitalized for the first time as well as many a times. TESTED GROUP/MATERIAL: The test group consisted of 120 patients, hospitalized for the first time, aged 19-20 years and diagnosed according to ICD-10 with paranoid schizophrenia, who had suffered from this illness for a period not longer than 2 years. The other group consisted of patients aged 25 - 46, who had suffered from this disease for 5 - 15 years and who had been hospitalized many a times (3 > 10).

[The self-acceptance and the acceptance of the parents by patients with anorexia nervosa].

Aim: The aim of this work is to describe the relationship between self-esteem and characteristics of self image and acceptance of parents and the characteristics of their images in the perception of patients with anorexia nervosa.

Method: The test group consisted of 30 patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa undergoing a treatment in the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical Academy in Lublin. The average age of the examined patients was 20 years.

[The self-image and the image of other people in the perception of patients with anorexia nervosa].

Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the self-image and the image of other people in the perception of female patients with anorexia nervosa.

Method: Thirty women with anorexia nervosa were investigated during hospitalisation in the Psychiatric Department of the Medical School of Lublin. The mean age of patients was 20 years.

[Connection between stressful live events with mental disorders].

Aim: The aim of the paper is to study the differences between the mentally ill and a control group correlated with stressful live events and its connection with a sense of coherence.

Methods: The group of 108 people, 49 psychiatric patients and 64 people without any mental disorders, were examined with the Hospital Anxiety-Depression Scale, Early Trauma Inventory, Social Readjustment Scale and the Sense of Coherence Scale.

Results: Patients with mental disorders had a significantly higher occurrence of stressful psychosocial factors during the last year, and also they were exposed to traumatic events in childhood more frequently than the control group.