[Developmental trends in psychotherapeutic concepts and methods]

In the course of the development from symptom-centered to personality-centered, psychoanalytic, behavior- and "client-centered" therapeutic conceptions, integration of psychotherapy within the realm of comprehensive medicine was temporarily disturbed. In this process psychotherapy restricted itself more and more to treatment of neuroses. At present due to the growing recognition of socio-and psychogenic components of somatic illness there exists the chance of integrating psychotherapy as a cross-sectional specialty into comprehensive medicine. In the USSR this state of affairs already exists.