Examined the effects of behavioral and cognitive therapies in the treatment of 46 patients (aged 18-61 yrs) with overt compulsions and/or rituals associated with their obsessions. Therapies included modeling, flooding, thought stopping, response prevention, problem solving, desensitization in vivo, and systematic desensitization using autogenic training as a relaxation method. Most Ss were also treated with antidepressants and/or anxiolytics. Based on clinical assessment, about 72% of the Ss appeared to be improved. In terms of symptomatic assessment only 52% were improved. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Presents a working hypothesis of the treatment of sleep disorders from the perspective of depth psychology. In addition to sleeping and waking states, there is a 3rd state referred to as hypnoid. The psychotherapy of sleep disturbances aims at treating the underlying ailment. Autogenous training can alleviate many psychosomatically caused cases of sleep disturbances and can be used in conjunction with psychotropic drugs and somatic treatments. Hypnosis is immediately effective in acute crises of sleeplessness tinged with panic. If sleep disturbance is caused by some deeper psychic disturbance, long lasting individual and/or group psychotherapy with catathymic image life or with the higher stage of autogenous training is indicated. A German version of this article precedes the English translation abstracted here. (German & Croatian abstracts) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)

Studied the effectiveness of autogenic training in the treatment of the psychological components of asthma. Human subjects: 12 male and female Spanish adults (aged 19-55 yrs) (bronchial asthma). Before and after autogenic training, Ss completed self-report measures of depression, stress, anxiety, and other symptoms of psychopathology. Pretest and posttest results were compared. Tests used: The "Stress Reactivity Questionnaire" by J. L. González de Rivera et al (1983) and Spanish versions of the Zung Depression Scale by W. W. Zung (1965) and the Symptom Distress Checklist-90--Revised by L. R. Derogatis (1975). (English abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)