How to study the ‘quality of psychoanalytic treatments’ and their long‐term effects on patients' well‐being: A representative, multi‐perspective follow‐up studyFootnote¹

1. This article is a modification of our presentations at the Empirical Pre‐Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Santiago de Chile in August 1999, the IPA Research Conference in London, 4 March 2000 and the EPF Conference in Prague, 6 April 2002. The study reported in this paper was planned by the ‘Projektgruppe Katamnesestudie’ with about twenty members of the German Psychoanalytical Association. The chairs are M Leuzinger‐Bohleber, U Stuhr, M Beutel; the Consultants: B Rüger (Statistical Consultant) and H Kächele (Consultant of the Research Committee of the IPA).

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