[The external world of the inner world. On creating external settings by the analyst].

32 male and 16 female psychoanalysts (training analysts, lecturers, candidates) of a training institute were asked for their experience, referring to conscious arrangement of the therapy-room (furniture, pictures, distance between armchair and couch etc.) and the reaction of the patient on it. The evaluation of the very detailed questionnaire showed some statistically highly significant sex differences.