[Psychiatric and Social Communication Inventory--a psychoanalytically based instrument for patient self-assessment].

In 1979 the PSKB, an instrument for standardized neurosis description, was published; we now have a great variety of evaluation procedures at our disposal. This article describes the development, application and evaluation of the PSKB-Se, an instrument which in great accordance with the PSKB makes a self-description of patients possible. The PSKB-Se is a psychoanalytically based self-assessment instrument which not only beholds a complaint list, but also especially registers therapy relevant intrapsychic and interactional attitudes. By applying the PSKB and the PSKB-Se in parallel one can especially investigate the connections between therapist assessment and patient self-assessment. This article furthermore also describes the factor analytical scale construction and the validity as well as various standardization measures. Each of the scales are interpreted on the basis of their clinical relevance and the correlation with other results. Effect examples from psychotherapy research illustrate the application possibilities of the instrument.