[Simultaneous diagnosis and simultaneous therapy in a clinical-psychosomatic station]

According to modern understanding, bodily, spiritual and social symptoms are seen as the expression of a kind of transmissive disturbance. One could just as well speak of a disturbance in the cybernetic control systems. In this context we understand simultaneous diagnostics and therapy as a proper technique for the understanding and treatment of psychosomatic illnesses. In simultaneous diagnostics and therapy, it is not a matter of adding-up the various symptoms, but rather a matterof an independent method of integrating the various areas. As can be seen in a statistical evaluation of the patients in the clinical psychosomatic station in 1975, a few characteristic tendencies could be traced. By a listing of the frequency of complaints and the correlation with somatic findings, a somatic diagnosis could be found in 60% of the patients. With 36% of the patients no definite connection could be found between the somatic diagnosis, that is the clinical diagnosis, and the main complaints. Besides that, the duration of the symptoms was determined. Important new viewpoints were found in the psychological area in a total of 27 patients and in the somatic area in a total of 19 patients.