title: [Spontaneous recovery or successful therapy? A diagnostic and catamnestic problem (author's transl)].
abstract: The assertion often made very emphatically and predominantly by laymen that analytic psychotherapy does not help the patient is seen here as a problem still under review. The author gives due consideration to the control group, the diagnosis, the percentage of follow-up examinations in relation to the original case material, additional therapeutical components effective during psychotherapy, and to the various factors promoting spontaneous recovery.
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000379:methods*; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous
vernacular_title: Spontanheilung oder Therapieerfolg? Ein Problem der Diagnostik und Katamnese