[Creative-work therapy as an essential method in the complex treatment of neuroses]

A specialized psychotherapy of neurotic developments should take aim at elucidating the more or less unconscious intrapsychic roots of these disorders. A clinical task in the medical psychotherapy is to facilitate and to promote the abilities of the patient to experience himself more adequate. We attribute to the experience a central role in the treatment. In this sense the creative work therapy is a valuable supplementing method in the group-psychotherapy by means of loosening instinctive impulses, making more transparent intrapsychic conflicts and facilitating to deal with these conflicts in a constructive way. This psychotherapeutic method furthermore stimulates the self-experience of the patient by improving his ways of communicating. By this better preconditions and stimulations for a constructive way of coping with the social milieu are created. Methods and techniques are represented in detail.