Abstract: The subject of the study is a subjective attitude to the disease of schizophrenic patients on compulsory treatment who committed a socially dangerous act. The attitude to the disease is examined through its components - emotional, motivational-behavioral, and cognitive ones. At the center of the study is the problem of effective rehabilitation of schizophrenic patients on compulsory treatment in a specialized psychiatric institution. The work aims to study the peculiarities of subjective attitude to the disease of schizophrenic patients under the conditions of compulsory treatment. Identification of the features of the attitude to the disease is carried out through the solution of research tasks on the analysis of cognitive, motivational, behavioral, emotional components of the attitude to the disease.
The research methods are a hermeneutic method, including the study of medical histories of the subjects, a conversation with the use of a structured interview developed by the author according to the content of the structural components of the attitude to the disease. Data processing was performed using cluster analysis and association analysis by Pearson's chi-squared test criterion in the STATISTICA 12.0 program. As a result of the empirical study, the content of the components of the attitude to the disease of schizophrenic patients with a criminal history was revealed. The interrelations of structural components of the attitude to the disease, which allowed determining its typology, are revealed. There are two types: 'Denial of the disease' and 'Awareness of the disease'. It is concluded that it is necessary to take into account the data obtained in the process of development and verification of the effectiveness of psychological support for schizophrenic patients on compulsory treatment.