[Body-oriented group psychotherapy in the 2nd half of life].

The main clinical experience and the theoretical objectives of body-related group psychotherapy are described in the context of a multidimensional concept for inpatient psychosomatic therapy of patients in the second half of life. Six hundred patient questionnaires which were filled in after treatment lasting several weeks were analysed in an investigation of the influence factors motivation for psychotherapy and the patient-doctor relationship. Twelve psychophysical parameters are collated with the response to different therapy forms into significance ranking sequences in a statistical study on. Even so they show sex divergence, the results indicate the importance of the priority objectives of our body-oriented psychotherapy: promotion of the recognition of psychosomatic interrelationships and comprehension of illness, correction of the age image and a proportionate stabilization of self-regulation in contrast in particular to body-training measures which experience shows have other priorities.