Dialogue at Eye Level: Therapists, Patients, and Their Relatives. Therapeutic interventions are more effective when patients feel better understood by their caregivers—and when they themselves have a clearer understanding of their condition and treatment. The significant importance of psychoeducation for patients' and relatives' understanding of illness, and ultimately for salutogenesis, is becoming increasingly evident. This handbook provides the necessary knowledge: Leading experts describe which psychoeducational concepts are available for various psychological, psychosomatic, and medical issues—ranging from affective disorders and psychoses within the schizophrenia spectrum to psychological behavioral abnormalities, as well as neurological and particularly common somatic conditions. In addition to the key facts about each illness.