Effects of autogenic training on emotional distress symptoms

Self-help interventions for depressive disorders and depressive symptoms: a systematic review

“…One RCT allocated 134 adults with minor psychological problems to 3 months of individual autogenic training with a therapist plus twice-daily practice or a delayed-treatment group [ 78 ]. The autogenic training group had significantly improved depressed mood after 3 months, whereas the control group showed no change.…”

Personality changes induced by autogenic training practice

“…1 The POMS results are practically the same as those obtained in another study at the end of the 3-month AT course. 19 The increased values of the personality traits attenuating the stress response seem to be due to a psychotherapeutic effect of AT. An 11-month practice period is somewhat short and the interviews with the specialist were limited to the introductory 3 months, and were devoted to teaching the exercises.…”

“…The positiveness of this relationship is also substantiated by the fact that, after the ®rst interviews and before the beginning of the AT course, there was a signi®cant decrease in the distress symptoms. 19 This is evidence of the phenomenon that a positive doctor±patient relationship in itself has a curative effect. 22 The study expands the notion of AT from a relaxation and anti-stress technique to a means of modifying personality traits.…”

Terapia autógena: técnicas, fundamentos, aplicaciones en la salud y clínica y apoyo empírico

“…Muchos de los estudios han sido publicados en lengua alemana, como lo son algunos de los presentes en la revisión de Stetter y Kupper (2002). Los estudios de Farnè (Farnè y Corallo, 1992;Farnè y Gnugnoli, 2000) muestran que el AT es eficaz en el tratamiento bien de pacientes con distrés somático (Farnè y Corallo, 1992), bien con pacientes con distrés emocional (Farnè y Gnugnoli, 2000). Referida a otras patologías de etiología más desconocida como la fibromialgia, el AT ha sido empleado como un componente de los programas de intervención, tal como se muestra en la revisión sistemática de Lami, Martínez y Sánchez (2013), en la que, sin embargo, es difícil identificar la aportación de cada componente en los programas de tratamiento.…”