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The following abstracts are edited versions of English summaries which appeared in Forum and are published with the permission of the journal.
In addition to numerous other factors involved in the acceptance of psychotherapy, nonutilization of indicated psychotherapy can be considered as an acting out of destructive narcissistic conflicts. The author tries to join aspects of narcissism and object relations theory with empirical findings on the acceptance of psychotherapy. One hundred probands (from an epidemiological field survey, not a patient sample) who suffered from medium psychogenic impairment received an offer of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Thirty-three percent accepted immediately or, after a few informative talks, within one year. In contrast, only three percent of the investigated sample had sought psychotherapeutic help on their own initiative during the year before the offer. The sixty-seven refusers of the psychotherapy offer were compared to the accepters with regard to sociodemographic, psychometric, and clinical variables (including interaction). A stereotype of attraction, conveyed by sociodemographic variables analogous to the well- known Yavis pattern, could not be proved statistically in this field survey. However,