Supportive psychotherapy combined with autogenous training in acute leukemic patients under isolation therapy

The authors reports on psychotherapeutic observations and experience with 18 leukemic patients who had been treated temporally in a germ-free environment ('life island'). 14 patients were under psychotherapeutic treatment during which a supporting psychotherapy with additional learning of autogenous training was carried out. The results are discussed and the problems of the therapeutic team of a hematologic intensive-care unit are pointed out.