The studies showed the importance of family structure and functioning in psychiatric disorders that emotional state of the family affects highly the occurence, course, relaps rate and rate of hospitalisations. At this study we investigated the perception of family functioning and its relationship with the sociodemografic and clinical variables in the schizophrenic patients. Our study group consisted of 115 schizophrenic patients according to DSM-1V criteria. The perception of family functioning measured with Family Assessment Device (FAD). We found statistically significant relationship between perception of family functioning and sex, family type, age, level of education and working status. We also found statistically significant relatiohship between rate of hospitalizations, compliance, duration of the disorder and the perception of family functioning. The pbands with acute psychotic episode showed perception of family functioning worse than probands with acute psychotic episode showed perception of family intervention can affect the course of schizophrenia positively. Interventions such as education of the .families and sııpportive groups would enhance the coping strategies and problem solving abilities of the members of the families other than patients and better functioning as well.