[Psychosomatic Rehabilitation: Inpatient Integrated Brief Psychotherapy in Neuro-orthopedic Psychosomatic Medicine]

Presented is a brief in-patient psychotherapy concept practiced in the framework of psychosomatic rehabilitation. The clinic's main focus is the treatment of patients with subjective health problems and disorders of the musculoskeletal system and sense organs ("neuroorthopaedic psychosomatics"). The conceptual development has been geared both to the specific requirements of the patient population and to the time-limiting and structural factors in psychosomatic rehabilitation. The structural conditions as well as the elements of the integrative therapy approach are set out, with group psychotherapy combining verbal and body-oriented therapy elements the central emphasis. The concept also accommodates the various stages of motivation among our patients. The entire range of supportive therapies, in particular physiotherapy, form an integral part of this concept. This integration of verbal and body-oriented therapy is hoped to enable the fragmentations and compartmentalizations, both with our patients and in the therapeutic team, to be overcome.