[Personality markers of phobic patients and their change in psychotherapy. Descriptive results of a catamnestic project of the effectiveness of 6-9 week inpatient treatment].

The present paper is part on an extensive follow-up study aimed at the investigation of the effects of in-patient psychotherapy and at the durability of those effects. Using a psychoanalytic oriented personality-inventory (PSKB, Rudolf 1981) 85 phobic patients were examined at the beginning, at the end, and one year after a 6-8 week in-patient psychotherapy. Our results confirmed some of the generally described personality-characteristics in patients with phobia: the phobic symptoms are often accompanied by physical symptoms (sensation of dizziness, weakness sensation, palpitation, sleep disturbance, heavy sweating and breathlessness) and psychic symptoms (anxiousness, depression, restlessness, reduced self-awareness, pedantry, inhibition of aggressive impulses) which could be influenced by psychotherapy. Furthermore we depicted results which have not yet been published in literature.