THE FIELD OF PRACTICE OF ANALYTIC GROUP-P SYCHOTHERAPY IN THE SECTIONANALYTIC GROUP-PSYCHOTHERAPY OF THE DAGG - A DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF A MEMBER SURVEY

By distributing a questionnaire to the 384 members of the section ,,An alytic Group Psychotherapy'' in the ,,Deutscher Arbeitskreis fur Grupp enpsychotherapie und Gruppendynamik'' (DAGG) the following aspects wer e to be answered: extent of performance, health insurance service, tre atment-setting, modus of referral, diagnostic line-up of the group and the theoretical concept of group-psychotherapy. The rate of the rever se running of the questionnaire was 21% and 30,7% in 1989 and 1990/91. The psychotherapist's private practice is the predominant field of ac tivity of the interviewed members in group psychotherapy (81%). The fr ame of the service rendered (setting and frequency of sessions) corres ponds very closely to the limits as stipulated in the agreement betwee n the ,,Kassenarztliche Vereinigung'' and the statutory health insuran ce. The share of applications to the statutory health insurance (RVO) for services is considerably smaller than the extent to which applicat ions are made to private health insurances or by people paying private ly. For 33% of the patients simultaneous treatment in dyadic- and the group psychotherapy is necessary. 45% of the patients treated in a pra ctice are in analytic group psychotherapy in a semi-open setting. The preferred referral modi are: recommendations from calluages, the patie nts' personal visits to psychotherapists and the referral by physician s in primary care. Neurotic patients (51%) have the best chance to be taken into group psychotherapy. There is only a small chance for patie nts with somato-psychic or psychotic diagnosis to get a place in group psychotherapy. As the most frequent theoretical conceptions for the i nterviewee's own group psychotherapies the ,,Gottinger Model'' by HEIG L-EVERS and the ,,Network-Model' by FOULKES were named.