title: [Creative-work therapy as an essential method in the complex treatment of neuroses].
abstract: A specialized psychotherapy of neurotic developments should take aim at elucidating the more or less unconscious intrapsychic roots of these disorders. A clinical task in the medical psychotherapy is to facilitate and to promote the abilities of the patient to experience himself more adequate. We attribute to the experience a central role in the treatment. In this sense the creative work therapy is a valuable supplementing method in the group-psychotherapy by means of loosening instinctive impulses, making more transparent intrapsychic conflicts and facilitating to deal with these conflicts in a constructive way. This psychotherapeutic method furthermore stimulates the self-experience of the patient by improving his ways of communicating. By this better preconditions and stimulations for a constructive way of coping with the social milieu are created. Methods and techniques are represented in detail.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012917:Social Adjustment
vernacular_title: Die Gestaltungstherapie als wesentliche Methode der Komplexbehandlung von Neurosen.