[Prognostic factors for the success of psychoanalytically founded inpatient psychotherapy].

Abstract

In the scope of our study for evaluation of the differential effect of inpatient psychotherapy we investigated by retrospective analysis of data at admission and 6. week of treatment, which factors were prognostic relevant for therapy success. We defined therapy-success as an equally weighted combination of patients' assessment of satisfaction with treatment success, which was evaluated by the Helping Relationship Questionnaire of Luborsky (1984), and the therapists' assessment of symptomatic and ego-structural improvement of the patients. For the variables, which were related to the patients or therapists, especially the therapists' judgement of the ego-structural disturbance of the patients (r = -.43, N = 218, p < 0.1) and motivation for psychotherapy (r = .27, N = 70, p < .01) exhibited relevant prognostic potency. The variables concerning the therapeutic relationship however gained increased prognostic value first after six weeks of treatment duration.