[Practical social therapy in psychiatry (author's transl)]

For each person working in the psychiatric field, disease concerns predominantly the individual. This statement is true for both somatotherapeutically and psychotherapeutically emphasized therapy procedure. The social reality of the patient himself is not taken into consideration in this procedure. A sociotherapeutical approach is attempted in this present study complementing the interpretation and action models mentioned above. Basing on a case of a female patient suffering from paranoid changes, specific intervention possibilities are explained, and also which meaningfully applied solution strategies can be successful. In this connection sociotherapy is shown to be a therapeutic procedure in its own right which, while actually trying to normalize the patient's psychopathological abnormalities, does not overlook his real life situation (which can easily happen with somatic and psychotherapeutic processes) and expressly makes this the basis and subject of the "treatment".