Jerzy A Sobański

Differential response of neurotic symptoms             75-84

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SUMMARY

Aim: The paper reports symptom improvement during intensive psychotherapy in a day hospital at the Wojewódzki Ośrodek Leczenia Nerwic.

Material: 3509 symptom checklists KO "0", filled-in by 319 patients treated in day hospital in 1990-1998. The group consisted of 235 females and 84 males, with diagnoses of somatization disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, dissociative motor and sensory disorders and with comorbid diagnoses.

Method: Symptom checklists KO "0", filled out weekly by patients were examined. For 10 selected symptoms, differential treatment-induced improvement rates were searched for.

Results: Particular 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, a higher improvement speed for selected symptoms was observed. However, significant differences in particular symptom improvement rates make treatment monitoring more complicated.