[Post-unification changes in inpatient psychiatric treatment in a Berlin treatment clinic]

In the present report the authors reach the conclusion that concerning the pathological picture no essential alterations can be observed. Patients, however, presently often enter therapy in a worse condition than before. Thus the tendency to arrive at a chronic stadium increases. In our opinion this development is partly owing to the fact, that the continuity of treatment is interrupted and partly to changes concerning the framework of conditions of live in society. We regard it as our task, also with the modified conditions of life, to render possible the dialogue between all participating in the treatment. Our purpose and wish remain to put all our available abilities to the disposition of the patients.