[Patient attitudes as predictors of success in autogenic training]. / Patienteneinstellungen als Erfolgsprediktoren beim Autogenen Training.

Therapy related patterns of attitudes are already traceable before starting autogenous training and can be considered to be predictors of therapeutic success. They make possible an approach to the differential indication of psychotherapy as situative variables in addition to the patients' habitual characteristics. Patients' who are successful in autogenous training can be described pretherapeutically by specific patterns of attitudes, which can be characterized by a low external locus of control (Krampen 1981) with rather little differentiated insight in the psychogenesis.