[The Principle of causality in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic methods--an attempt at a systematic analysis based on a technologically oriented psychotherapy concept].

The attempt is made to describe in general psychotherapeutic work and efficacy on the basis of the understanding of psychotherapy as a process of action in the framework of a principle of causality of psychotherapy. Issuing from this usual psychotherapeutic methods and conceptions, which at present are applied in the GDR, are briefly characterized and a systematology of these methods is demonstrated. The description of principles of effect shall facilitate the understanding for psychotherapeutic effects in patients undergoing internal treatment and the broader inclusion of psychotherapy into the therapy of the specialist in internal medicine.