BIOMENTAL

1. In German - speaking medicine autogenous training (AT) is, at present, the best understood and most widely used method of psychotherapy. The scientific researcher J. H. SCHULZ, who developed this ingenious system of con centrative self-relaxation, devoted decades of work to the testing of its broad spectrum of indications as relaxation therapy. It comprises all "nervous" or neuro-vegetative, therefore functional or conversion neurotic clinical pictures, psychosomatic diseases such as Asthma bronchiale, Colitis ulcerosa, essential hypertonia, etc. But, after thorough practice in this pragmatic method, the patient can also learn to control, more or less himself, psychoneurotic symptoms, such as states of anxiety, slight depressive neuroses and character maladjustments. Principally, therefore, those 30-40% of all patients who suffer from diseases with psychological or partially psychological causes can be treated by AT. But, as is well-known, this method can also help healthy people,..

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