[Differential indications in the clinical field. Empirical study of management of indications for analytic individual and group psychotherapy respectively in a psychotherayp clinic ].

This study aims at a systematic description of factors which influence the practice of differential indication between psycho-analytic individual and group-therapy in apsychotherapeutic clinic. The self-description of inclinic patients for who individual therapy was indicated, was compared to the self-description of those who were expected to join a therapeutic group. Two personality-tests (Giessentest "GT" and Freiburger Persönlichkeitsinventar "FPI") and a symptom-questionnaire (Beschwerdenliste"BSB") were applicated. If the self-description fo patients is an important factor influencing differential indication, then a difference should be found in comparison of the self-description of both samples. The result is , that important differences are not to be found, and that, moreover the little differences are variable by the time. In conclusion, patient-centered explorations give no sufficient explanation, why group therapy was indicated in some cases and individual therapy in others. Basing on these results, differential indication in clinical psychotherapy is defined as an interactional process which is influenced by specific cognitive factors of the therapist and his clinical socialisation on the background of variable institution-bound experience.