[Periodicity and rhythm in view of "functional relaxation"]

Starting from psychopathological and psychosomatic research, differences as well as interplay in periodicity and rhythm are worked out. While analytical psychotherapy deals with periodic-phasic disturbances, "functional relaxation" does so with rhythmical ones. Both processes in their dovetailing are made plain through case histories, in which periodic-phasic disturbances may also lead to rhythmical ones and vice versa. Treatment of bodily manifest disturbances of rhythm by "functional relaxation" cures or prevents periodically recurrent illness not only individually but does so with following generations too.