[Autogenic training in closed groups with special reference to therapist-patient relations]

Autogenic training in the GDR is the most frequently employed psychotherapeutic method, mostly as a symptom-centred procedure in neurotic reactions and beginning secondary faulty psychic development, but also in neurotic reactions on the basis of primary faulty development. These facts in particular oblige us to practise autogenic training in a methodically clean manner. This is done by us in the form of closed groups. This paper is intended to give some aspects of the group process under special consideration of the therapist/patient relation and some risks and degeneration possibilities of these processes.