Über die Behandlung yon Asozialen in einer geschlossenen psychotherapeutischen Abteilung

The author reports about a small closed psychotherapeutic ward. The personnel exceeded in number that of the patients. The team was from the beginning familiar with the psychotherapy of psychoses and of severe psychosomatic cases. Gradually the team also managed to enter into a psychotherapeutic process with young asocial female patients. It was unavoidable to keep these patients in the beginning strictly confined to the ward during a certain, individually varying period of time. These circumstances led ‘spontaneously’ to intensive contacts and tensions the working through of which proved to be fruitful, to be effective psychotherapy.