TABLE 2.

Main indications of psycholytic therapy as issued by the European Medical Society of Psycholytic Therapy (EPT) (42).

Psychopathological conditions

Character neuroses

Psychopathic individuals

Obsessive-compulsive neuroses

Neurotic depression

Endo-reactive depression

Anxiety neuroses

Cardiac phobias or cardiac neurosis

Phobias

Sexual disorders

Chronic impotence and frigidity

Exhibitionism

Psychosomatic conditions

Migraine

Psoriasis

Ulcerative colitis

Pubertal anorexia

Hysterical conversion

The terms used in the table - admittedly outdated in terms of diagnostic designations - are intended to present a historical reference and starting point for psycholytic psychotherapy. This is also in view of the fact that not much has happened since then in terms of research in psycholytic therapy and that future clinical trials may test the historical indications using rigorous study designs.