title: [Personality markers of phobic patients and their change in psychotherapy. Descriptive results of a catamnestic project of the effectiveness of 6-9 week inpatient treatment].
abstract: The present paper is part on an extensive follow-up study aimed at the investigation of the effects of in-patient psychotherapy and at the durability of those effects. Using a psychoanalytic oriented personality-inventory (PSKB, Rudolf 1981) 85 phobic patients were examined at the beginning, at the end, and one year after a 6-8 week in-patient psychotherapy. Our results confirmed some of the generally described personality-characteristics in patients with phobia: the phobic symptoms are often accompanied by physical symptoms (sensation of dizziness, weakness sensation, palpitation, sleep disturbance, heavy sweating and breathlessness) and psychic symptoms (anxiousness, depression, restlessness, reduced self-awareness, pedantry, inhibition of aggressive impulses) which could be influenced by psychotherapy. Furthermore we depicted results which have not yet been published in literature.
authors.affiliation: Fachklinik für psychogene Erkrankung, Blieskastel.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sänger-Alt
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sandweg
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Merten
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rudolf
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000379:Agoraphobia / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011594:Psychometrics
vernacular_title: Persönlichkeitsmerkmale von Phobikern und ihre Veränderung durch Psychotherapie. Deskriptive Ergebnisse eines Katamneseprojekts über die Wirksamkeit einer 6-8wöchigen stationären Heilmassnahme.