  Our research focus on gravitational collapse of electrically charged scalar
field in dilaton gravity and in the presence of phantom coupling. We examine
dynamical behaviour of the scalar field coupled to Maxwell field when
gravitational interactions have form consistent with the low-energy limit of
the string theory. Moreover, we allow the evolving fields to have negative sign
in front of the respective kinetic term of the Lagrangian. The main aim of our
studies is to investigate in what manner does the phantom nature of either
Maxwell or dilaton fields (or both of them) affect the outcomes of the
collapse. It turns out that the influence is crucial to the obtained spacetime
structures. Negative kinetic energy of one (or both) of the fields delays,
changes the course or even prevents the collapse.
