THE INTERPLAY OF DIFFERENT THERAPEUTIC COMPONENTS WITHIN A COMBINED PSYCHODYNAMIC-BEHAVIORAL APPROACH

Within inpatient psychotherapy traditionally different therapeutic app roaches are combined. Usually verbal interventions of different orient ations and settings(e.g. individual and group therapy), nonverbal proc edures(e.g. music and art therapy) and bodyoriented techniques are inc luded. The combinations is merely additive, integrated or eclectic. Li ttle is known about the reciprocal interrelation of such combinations. Along the example of a definite additive combination of psychodynamic and behavioural psychotherapy for agoraphobias and obsessive disorder s a rationale for the interrelationship of the different therapeutic c omponents is discussed.