Unit for psychotherapy at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bayreuth

Objective and method: Inpatients of psychotherapeutic treatment units" at State Mental Hospitals in Bavaria are different from those treated in so-called psychosomatic clinics for rehabilitation, looking at additional criteria like psychiatric and somatic comorbidity or suicidal behaviour. Results and conclusion: Treatment concepts and results are respectable and comparable to so-called psychosomatic clinic. In this paper we describe the Psychotherapy Unit" at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bayreuth. Depressive episode is the most diagnosis, with 1 to 4 comorbid psychiatric diagnosis in 82% of all patients and 28 with somatic comorbidity.