title: [The long path to psychotherapy. On the "patient career" of psychoneurotic and psychosomatic patients].
abstract: Among other factors the prognosis of psychoneurotic and psychosomatic disorders depends upon how soon after the onset of the symptoms a specific psychotherapeutic treatment is initiated. A group of one hundred test subjects, selected at random from among the patients admitted for treatment at a special clinic, was used to determine the factors responsible for the duration of the so-called careers of these patients. Contrary to what was expected it turned out that particularly three factors correlate positively with a speedy admission to psychotherapy. Thus younger psychoneurotic or psychosomatic patients, patients who in their own conception consider their disorder to be psychogenic, and patients in whom psychic or psychosomatic complaints have caused an impairment of their function at work, are the ones who are admitted to psychotherapy relatively soon after the first manifestation of their complaints. It must be noted that none of these three factors is explanatory for any of the others.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012803:Sick Role; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Der lange Weg zur Psychotherapie. Zur "Patientenkarriere" von psychoneurotisch und psychosomatisch Kranken.