The determination process of all details and the establishment of regulations regarding
psychotherapy, which is an important part of legal health insurance services in Germany, has
taken its present form in about 50 years. It can be accepted that the process started in 1967
with the application of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy within the
scope of legal insurance. Later, the most concrete step was taken in 1999 with the
Psychotherapy Law entering into force. Any specialist in the field of mental health cannot call
himself a psychotherapist with the enforcement of this law because psychotherapist has
become a legally protected profession group like doctor in Germany. In addition to the
medical doctor psychotherapists, psychologist psychotherapists, and child and adolescent
psychotherapists have also started to provide services under legal insurance. In this research,
the psychotherapy system, the content of psychotherapy education, the standards in
professional practice, the quality of psychotherapy service or the mechanisms that provide the
control of the procedural processes regarding the implementation process will be mentioned.
Key words: psychotherapist, psychotherapy system in Germany, psychotherapy education, psychotherapy law, psychotherapy service within the scope of legal health insurance
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