Heroin addiction patient's relatives with personal and family dysfunction

Bocharov V.V., Shishkova A.M., Karlovskaya I.F. (St. Petersburg)

	Bocharov Victor Victorovich –  is a candidate of psychological sciences, lecturer, chief of clinical psychology and psychodiagnostic laboratory in Scientific Institute of V.M. Bekchterev. E-mail: WBoch@hotbox.ru
	Shishkova Alexandra Mikhaylovna –  is a candidate of psychological sciences, scientific researcher of clinical psychology and psychodiagnostic laboratory in Scientific Institute of V.M. Bekchterev. E-mail: shishaspb@mail.ru
	Karlovskaya Irina Fedorovna –  is a clinical psychologist in narcological dispensary № 1 (St. Petersburg). E-mail: irinaskaya@mail.ru

Abstract. This article is about 1-st stage of research which directed on the investigation of heroin addiction patients' relatives functioning. This research revealed the significant "destructive-deficiency" of personal activity in all investigated relatives. The different degree of relatives personal dysfunction is connecting with family rile structure. The most personal dysfunction had mothers and wives of heroin patients. We chose some family positions which were typical for heroin addictive relatives.

Key words: narcomania, individual characteristics, family relations, the relatives of patients with heroin addiction, personal dysfunction, chronic stress.