[Training effects in the treatment of neuroses]

The whole kinetotherapeutic programme of a psychotherapeutic department--without systematic training in the sense of athletics--in more than half of the cases surprisingly leads to physiologic changes, as they are to be expected in a submaximal training. In significant correlation with this the quality of the rule of the circulatory parameter investigated (pulse rate) improves. In the majority of cases in which positive training and regulation effects developed the psychotherapeutic results were clearly positive, too. On the other hand only in less than half of all cases with clear psychotherapeutic improvement training effects could be proved. The psychologic effects of training are based on a reaction complex the most essential components of which are described.