According to Aaron Beck dysfunctional thinking patters appear also in euthymic patients, after withdrawal of acute disease's symptoms. Patients have disordered, negative image of themselves, of their future and the surrounding world.

It has been shown that a way a man perceives possessed social support has for him a basic meaning.

The purpose of the research is to analyze the relationship between perceived social support and patient's cognitive style.

The study group consisted of euthymic outpatients diagnosed with recurrent depressive disorder (40 patients) or bipolar affective disorder (40 patients). The control group consisted of healthy volunteers of sex and age corresponding to the case group. Assessment of a cognitive style was made according to Rosenberg Scale, Hopelessness Scale HS-20 and Automatique Thoughts Questionnaire ATQ 30, assessment of the amount of received support - according to Cohen's ISEL.

The presented study revealed that, in both groups of patients, a thinking style is disturbed and that there is a link between a cognitive style and the perception of the level of received support. The link was stronger in the group of patients with unipolar affective disorder. In both groups correlations concerning the emotional support were the highest.

The most important therapeutic implication of the obtained results is confirmation or emphasis of the existence, in the therapy of affective disorders, a common field for cognitive-behavioral therapy and psycho-social interventions. According to shown correlations an improvement in functioning on one field may positively influence other.