[The professional status of analytic and adolescent psychotherapists in the "FOGS Study]

Analytic psychotherapists for children and young people are the only group of psychoanalytic methods among "laypersons" has become reality. These therapists are integrated into the overall German health care system. The author discusses the scope of their activities as reflected by the "FOGS Study", underlining the medico-centric profile displayed by this professional group and the attendant duality characteristic of it. On the one hand, these therapists are incorporated organisationally into the professional associations of the psychoanalysts, but in their activities and trainee work they are largely autonomous. It is to be hoped that the planned "Psychotherapist Law" will provide this group with a status in which their legal standing and their specific therapeutic identity will be more closely matched.