[Problems and possibilities of documentation in the field of analytic psychotherapy]

The article is concerned with the problems of documentation in the field of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. A report is given about the different ways of documentation which have been used in the Institut for Psychogenic Diseases, Berlin. It is described which facts are important to be recorded, what kind of informations about the patients can be collected without to much bias of the facts, and which kind of theoretical systems will create difficulties if they are used for data collection.