The clinic as an interpersonal field of dynamic psychiatric treatment of psychosomatic diseases.

In Günther Ammon's structural personality model, psychosomatic illnesses are understood to be the expression of a structural ego-defect--especially in the central ego-function of the body-ego, of identity and of constructive aggression--which owes its origin to an insufficient mother-child symbiosis. The dynamic psychiatric clinic realises an interpersonal field, into which the defects are externalised and remedied by the process of a late ego development. The clinic offers various therapeutical levels: the clinic as a whole, the analytical milieu, group and individual therapy, whereby working-through of the interdependence of patient and staff dynamics has a main integrating function.