Special issue - introduction

Authors

  • Marianne Ringler

Abstract

The article discusses the present status with respect to the topic psychotherapy in hospitals and concomitant problems. The challenges of this field of activity are depicted with respect to the questions of the objectives, diagnostics and indication, multidisciplinary cooperation and assignment of job descriptions, transference and countertransference, as well as the necessity to develop interventions which are specific for illnesses and their therapies.

Keywords:
Psychotherapy in hospitals, psychosomatics, consultation-, liasionpsychotherapy, psychotherapy and bodily disease, multidisciplinary cooperation.

 

Author Biography

Marianne Ringler

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marianne Ringler, Universitätsklinik für Tiefenpsychologie und Psychotherapie, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien

Published

1997-04-01

How to Cite

Ringler, M. (1997). Special issue - introduction. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 5(2), 65–72. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/613