[Forms of therapeutic working relations].

Five different forms of therapeutic cooperation were identified on the basis of evaluations by therapists and patients of the therapeutic working relationship using a multivariate method; the forms were compared with the diagnostic and prognostic information derived from the initial patient history. Differences were determined on the basis of age, economic situation, and behavior during illness, whereas education in the sense of the Yavis hypothesis and also sex had no predictor function for the quality of the therapeutic working relationship. It could also be shown that the patient's neurotic interaction patterns, readiness for transfer, and concept of illness all carry greater weight in a prognosis for the therapeutic working relationship than the establishment of a diagnosis.