OBJECTIVES: At the Tiefenbrunn hospital, patients suffering from severe psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders are treated. The treatment concept is psychodynamically oriented. Psychopharmacological treatments are included if necessary. This article reports the results of the treatment of a sample of patients with schizophrenic and other psychotic disorders (ICD-10: F20-F25). METHODS: An unselected sample of N = 33 patients was studied upon admission and before discharge with a set of routinely administered standardized instruments. RESULTS: According to the data, all of these patients were severely disturbed: Upon admission to the clinic, they showed high pathological values in the Beeintrachtigungs- Schwere-Score (degree of impairment score; Schepank 1995), the Symptom Checklist SCL-90-R (Franke 1995), the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (Horowitz et al. 1994), as well as a high degree of comorbid disorders. A comparison of the data at admission and at discharge shows that these patients improved significantly and substantially concerning symptoms, interpersonal problems, contentedness with life and individually formulated target problems. DISCUSSION: The results of the present study are discussed with regard to both the treatment of psychotic patients and the results of other studies.
