[Concomitant psychotherapy treatment of bronchial asthma]

According to the biopsychosocial disease model we regard the bronchial asthma as a disease, in the development, distinction and course of which psychic and social factors play an important role in unseparable interaction with the known biological factors and confirm this opinion by psychologic investigations on 273 asthmatics. From the evidence of anxieties, apprehensions and psychic personality deviations in at least 25% of the patients results the conclusion of an integrated associated psychotherapeutic treatment, preferably with the methods: talk with the physician, biographical anamnesis, supportive psychotherapy and group visit.