Catamnestic studies of patients with writer's cramp following inpatient psychotherapy |
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Authors: | A Schulze H W Jacob |
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Affiliation: | Lehrstuhl Psychiatrie, Bereiches Medizin (Charité), Humboldt-Universit?t, Berlin. |
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Abstract: | The paper gives the results of a follow-up study of 58 patients after psychotherapeutic treatment as in-patients for writer's cramp. Where as immediately after discharge 74.1% of the patients felt an improvement in their condition, at the time of the follow-up study only 17.2% were demonstrably improved, with 37.9% subjectively feeling an improvement over their state before treatment as in-patients. These results suggest that the customary psychotherapeutic methods employed have less effect on the evidently multifactorial extrapyramidal-motor basic complaint but rather have the effect of improving the patient's ability to cope with this in daily life. |
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