title: [The Repertory Grid as a research instrument in inpatient psychotherapy. Possibilities of semantic construct analysis in patients with psychogenic pain].
abstract: The Repertory Grid Technique provides a differential analysis of individual constructs ("hypotheses"), by which we structure the perception of our environment. In our study we investigated 35 psychogenic chronic pain patients at beginning and end of inpatient psychotherapy, whether semantic changes occurred in their construct system. We analysed these semantic changes using a categorial system, which was developed by Landfield (1971). This categorial system consists of 22 different categories, at which a rating system (by use of a manual) evaluates the appropriate semantic attachment of constructs of an individual repertory grid to these categories. Our study shows that contrary to our expectation psychogenic pain patients comparatively often described themselves with constructs, which expressed direct social interactions or emotions. However, this finding must be interpreted with some reservation, as our patient group probably is not representative for most of the chronic pain patients, which usually are hardly to motivate for inpatient (respectively outpatient) psychotherapy. Finally we investigated the semantic changes of the construct system during the course of inpatient psychotherapy--here we assume that the conceptualization of own theory guided categories will provide more clinically relevant or perspective results compared to the original category system of Landfield.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Universität Mainz.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bassler
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Willenberg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kränkle-Schmid
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010343:Patient Admission; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011594:Psychometrics; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012938:Social Perception; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Der Repertory Grid als Forschungsinstrument bei Stationärer Psychotherapie. Möglichkeiten der semantischen Konstruktanalyse bei psychogenen Schmerzpatienten.