title: [Structures in the treatment of patients with cardiac phobias].
abstract: The treatment of patients with cardiac phobias includes several therapeutic procedures following different indications. Determining are the various needs of the patients. This concept attempts to overcome the myth of universality which consists in the assumption of an unique therapeutic proceeding for different neurotic disorders (10). Heterogeneous aspects of treatment like relaxation, partner-therapy, exposure in vivo, cognitive behaviour therapy (attributions, expectancies) as well as orthopaedic-physical methods are taken into consideration. In that way the therapeutic principles go beyond the limitations established by the various theories of neurotic behaviour. Certainly by doing so the degree of comparison generally is reduced. For that reason the various teams involved in these therapeutic problems should make every effort to come to an optimal treatment program by controlled studies for cardiac phobic patients.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik Wien.
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Zapotoczky
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009449:Neurocirculatory Asthenia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Strukturen in der Behandlung herzphobischer Patienten.