[Personality markers in patients with Sudeck's disease. A psychoanalytic study]. / Persönlichkeitsmerkmale bei Patienten mit M. Sudeck. Eine tiefenpsychologische Untersuchung.

We examined 22 patients suffering from reflex sympathetic dystrophy with psychoanalytic interviews. In all 22 patients we found a common psychological structure corresponding to Balint's basic fault (Balint, 1970). For people with this structure the accident that preceded the reflex sympathetic dystrophy and the following pain, immobilisation and need to help are promoting the patient's regression in a specific way ending in the developing of reflex sympathetic dystrophy. The dispair of the patients about their reflex sympathetic dystrophy expresses unsolved fears of early childhood.

[Effectiveness of psychosocial management of cancer patients--a critical review of empirical studies (status: December 1990)]. / Zur Effektivität psychosozialer Betreuung Krebskranker--Eine methodenkritische Literaturübersicht (Stand: Dezember 1990).

41 empirical studies evaluating psychosocial care of cancer patients, published between 1975 and 1990 are presented. Only those studies were selected that examined adult patients and controlled the effects of psychotherapeutic interventions. 35 studies reported significant effects on coping, mood states or quality of life. 6 articles were inquiries into the efficiency of intervention on time of survival, 3 measured the impact on the immune system.