ABSTRACT
The initial interview is a very important and interesting first step towards understanding the patient and clarifying the indication for treatment. The demands of field of psychiatry, as well as health insurance systems, necessitated the formulation of a diagnosis and an indication of the psychotherapy; insurance has been termed “the Latent Presence of Third Parties”. Psychoanalysis offered different forms of therapy not only for patients with neuroses, but also for patients with severe personality disorders, and psychosomatic and psychotic disorders. The motivation of intellectual curiosity is not sufficient for a long-term psychotherapy, but is an indication for counselling. The scientific discussion about indication is a lot more widespread in psychoanalysis than in psychodynamic psychotherapy. The indication for psychoanalysis is rather strict, because the psychoanalytical standard method is more intensive than psychotherapy. The indication for psychoanalytic psychotherapy is broader than that of psychoanalysis.
