Jerzy A. Sobański
Różnice szybkości ustępowania objawów zaburzeń nerwicowych  81
Differential response of neurotic symptoms  81
Summary
Aim: Analysis of timing of neurotic disorders' symptoms improvement during intensive

psychotherapy in a day hospital at the Wojewódzki Ośrodek Leczenia Nerwic according to an

integrative theoretical approach and relation of the phenomena observed to therapy outcome.

Material: 3509 symptom checklists "0", filled in by 319 patients treated in day hospital in

1990-1998. The group consisted of 235 females and 84 males, mostly with diagnoses of

somatization disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, dissociative motor and sensoric

disorders as well as with a diagnosis combining elements of listed above. Method: Symptom

checklists "0", filled weekly by patients were examined. For 10 selected neurotic symptoms,

differential treatment-induced improvement rates were looked for. Results: Particular

neurotic symptoms disappeared with different velocity during intensive psychotherapy. In

subgroups of patients with different psychotherapy outcomes, during subsequent 9 weeks of

treatment, different rates of selected 10 neurotic disorders' symptoms improvement were

found. Conclusion: During psychotherapy processes with beneficial final results, higher

improvement speed for selected neurotic symptoms was observed. However, significant

differences in particular symptom improvement rates make treatment monitoring more

complicated.