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With the enforcement of the German law for psychotherapeutics at the beginn
ing of 1999, the field of psychotherapy detached from a widespread,,delegat
ion procedure" through the possibility of first-access for patients to a ps
ychotherapist. In the form of an experiment, Saxony-Anhalt practiced as the
only land in the Feral Republic of Germany a modified form of delegation p
rocedure in the legal health insurance since 1992. The most important modif
ication consisted in the possibility of first-access for the patient to the
psychotherapist. Using selected results of the investigation in the view o
f psychotherapy patients and from medical and psychological psychotherapist
s, the situation after 5 years since introduction of this model in the out-
patient, psychotherapeutic care in Saxony-Anhalt will be shown, as well as
experience gained from this model.