[Psychotherapeutic group work with psychiatric patients--a clinical study (author's transl)].

This study investigates the effects of a highly structurized therapy programme made up of different elements of psychotherapy and sociotherapy, conducted in 42 inpatients of a psychiatric hospital. Random testing of the patients was differentiated in respect of the diagnosis of a psychosis, neurosis and disturbed personality. Whereas clearly positive effects were seen in the group of neurotics (measured by means of the Freiburg Personality Inventory test before and after the therapy programme), this did not seem to apply to the group of psychotics. This group, too, included the majority of patients who discontinued participation in the programme.