title: [Catamnestic studies of patients with writer's cramp following inpatient psychotherapy].
abstract: The paper gives the results of a follow-up study of 58 patients after psychotherapeutic treatment as in-patients for writer's cramp. Where as immediately after discharge 74.1% of the patients felt an improvement in their condition, at the time of the follow-up study only 17.2% were demonstrably improved, with 37.9% subjectively feeling an improvement over their state before treatment as in-patients. These results suggest that the customary psychotherapeutic methods employed have less effect on the evidently multifactorial extrapyramidal-motor basic complaint but rather have the effect of improving the patient's ability to cope with this in daily life.
authors: Lehrstuhl Psychiatrie, Bereiches Medizin (Charité), Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Schulze
authors: H W
authors: HW
authors: Jacob
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009120:Muscle Cramp / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy
vernacular_title: Katamnestische Untersuchungen von Schreibkrampfpatienten nach stationärer Psychotherapie.