Difficulties of psychosomatic clients in assessing personal emotions and motives: possible consequences for therapeutic treatment
Sachse, R.; Atrops, A.
Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie 41(5): 187-195
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0937-2032 PMID: 1871251 Document Number: 375385
In this work the degree of explication accomplished in a focusing process by 33 persons suffering psychosomatic disorder was compared with that attained by 33 persons in a control group. On the basis of a general psychological conception of focusing process a therapeutical action model was developed which offers concrete action directives to the therapist to deal with different behaviour patterns of clients. It was argumented that persons who exhibit action-directing motives of which they are not aware or which they do not understand due to their great distance to internal experiencing, run a higher risk to experience massive stresses in their struggle with the environment frequently with psychophysiological dysfunctions. In the experimental part of this work it was shown that, as compared with the probands of the comparison group, this therapy method was less beneficial for persons with psychosomatic ailments both with respect to self-experiencing and assessment by others, in that they less distinctly approached the focusing goal and optimum process characteristics.