[Results of integrated inpatient detoxification and motivation treatment of alcohol dependent patients]. / Ergebnisse integrierter stationärer Entzugs- und Motivationsbehandlung alkoholabhängiger Patienten.

During the course of the disease many alcoholic patients are detoxified on an inpatient basis. Detoxification lasts for some days to 2 or 3 weeks. The treatment goal of abstinence usually cannot be achieved by detoxification alone. Therefore a qualified detoxification should consist of a medical treatment, a careful (psychiatric) diagnostic process and a psychotherapeutic treatment aiming at motivation for further treatment. The described program integrates these components. The psychotherapeutic approach is emphatic and directive, trying to convince all patients to apply for further alcoholism treatment. Follow-up data of 120 of the initial 130 patients eight months after detoxification showed, that 68 patients (57%) started further treatment, most of them as inpatients. In the group of prognostic unfavourable patients, who had not received any disease related counseling before detoxification (77% of the sample), 47% started further alcoholism treatment.

[Ambulatory short-term therapy of anxiety patients with autogenic training and hypnosis. Results of treatment and 3 months follow-up]. / Ambulante Kurztherapie von Angstpatienten mit autogenem Training und Hypnose. Behandlungsergebnisse und 3-Monats-Katamnese.

The aim of the study was to examine the effects of a short-term outpatient treatment (6 sessions à 90 minutes) with autogenic training (Schultz 1932) or hypnosis (Erickson and Rossi 1979), concerning patients with anxiety- and panic disorders (according to DSM-III-R and ICD-10-criteria). 27 Outpatients were recruited by newspaper articles. Most of them had not been treated before. Both short-term treatments consisted of 6 weekly group sessions (4-6 patients). Psychological examinations were carried out before and after treatment and at a follow-up after 3 months. Trait anxiety (STAI-X2) and psychosomatic complaints (BfS/BL') decreased in both groups significantly after treatment. This therapeutic effect was stable during the following 3 months. The frequency of panic attacks decreased as well under treatment, and this effect was even more marked during the 3 month following treatment. The therapeutic success was influenced by the frequency of autosuggestive exercises carried out by the patients at home. This form of short-term treatment is not sufficient for all patients with anxiety disorders but the results of that study encourage to use short-term interventions with autogenic training and hypnosis as initial therapeutic approaches for such patients and to combine them with other therapeutic interventions.