ABSTRACT
Many victims of workplace bullying suffer from serious psychological and somatic illnesses. As they often cannot recover from these illnesses without help, psychotherapy is an option. To date, many victims have the experience that the psychotherapeutic treatment they receive does not really deal with their problems at work, but looks for the reasons of their problems elsewhere. In this chapter we describe an inpatient therapy programme for patients suffering from workplace bullying. It is based on cognitive behaviour therapy but integrates key findings from bullying research. The four major steps of the programmes are establishing distance, understanding, making up a decision and taking action. Key elements of the therapy are the detailed analysis of the bullying case and the development of a new life perspective which may include the decision to leave the organization. We report evaluation studies that speak for the usefulness of this inpatient therapy programme.
