Importance of the relationship between mother and child, especially during the first eight to eighteen months, is well known in professional literature. From this age, the child is getting experience of his/her whole body, experience toward the bodies of other persons, about subjects and surrounding. This is important for the feeling of security in future life. Beside, this is a fundamental point
... [Show full abstract] for all corporeal mental activities aimed toward the environment. Approximately eight hundred mothers were investigated in the presented study. The investigation was conducted by a psychiatrist using social questionnaires over a the period of eight months. Preliminary results of the study showed thirty percent of the tested mothers to have problems in the relationship with their infants. In this paper, the most common problems are reported in order to point to the necessity of the preventive work organized at the Institute for Mental Health.