The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia

This volume is dedicated to Theodore Lidz and Ruth W. Lidz, as was the conference on the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia held on April 9 and 10, 1979, at which the materials here published were presented. This 1979 sym­ posium replicated in some respects the one held at Yale University thirty years e...

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Other Authors: Strauss, John S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1980, 1980
Edition:1st ed. 1980
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Rationale for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia
  • 1 Psychotherapy in Schizophrenia: Historical Considerations
  • 2 On the Central Task of Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic and Family Perspectives
  • 3 Social and Family Factors in the Course of Schizophrenia: Toward an Interpersonal Problem-Solving Therapy for Schizophrenics and Their Families
  • 4 Some Observations on the Nature and Value of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenic Patients
  • 5 Discussion: Rationale for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia
  • 6 General Discussion
  • II Research
  • 7 Family Therapy During the Aftercare Treatment of Acute Schizophrenia
  • 8 Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: Can We Make It Work?
  • 9 The Nature of the Psychotic Experience and Its Implications for the Therapeutic Process
  • 10 Problems Inherent in the Study of Psychotherapy of Psychoses: Conclusions from a Community Psychiatric Action Research Study
  • 11 Insight and Self-Observation: Their Role in the Analysis of the Etiology of Illness
  • 12 Discussion
  • 13 General Discussion
  • III The Practice of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics
  • 14 Comments on the “Elements” of Schizophrenia, Psychotherapy, and the Schizophrenic Person
  • 15 Comprehensive Psychosocial Treatment: Beyond Traditional Psychotherapy
  • 16 All-or-None Phenomena in the Psychotherapy of Severe Disorders
  • 17 Paradoxical Interventions: Leverage for Therapeutic Change in Individual and Family Systems
  • 18 Discussion: The Practice of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics
  • 19 General Discussion
  • IV New Directions
  • 20 The Developing Guidelines to the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia
  • 21 Medication and Psychotherapy in Outpatients Vulnerable to Psychosis
  • 22 The Role for Psychodynamic Psychiatry in the Treatment of Schizophrenic Patients
  • 23 The Quality of Outcome from Psychotherapy ofSchizophrenia
  • 24 Toward Comprehensive Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia
  • 25 Discussion: New Directions
  • 26 General Discussion