Ein Vierteljahrhundert psychosoziale Hämophilie-Beratung im Wandel der Zeit

SummaryWith the development of clotting-factors in the seventies the haemophilia patients were released from being handicapped and began to live a quite normal life. Thus, psychosocial counselling did not seem to be necessary. But the impact of HIV-infection to the world of haemophilia was so intense that professional help was offered at the Munich Hemophilia Centre since 1985.During the preceeding 25 years we talked to about 120 patients and relatives every year in more than 10 000 psychotherapeutic talks. 70 of our patients were HIV-infected. For about half of them we took care until they died on AIDS or of li…