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Download Author: Arieti, Silvano, M.D.


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Changes of the Body Image

In some patients the distortion of the body image becomes the focal point of the psychotic transformation. The body image can be studied from three different points of view: (1) as a body schema, or a neurological engram; (2) as a percept, or, in a more general way, as an experience; (3) as a concept, which is altered by the delusional ideation or at least by the psychodynamic conflict of the patient.

Other Physical Therapies

Physical therapies of schizophrenia are not as frequent as they used to be. However, because they remain in the therapeutic armamentarium of many psychiatrists, a brief description of them and a critical discussion of their use is presented.

Syndromes Related to Schizophrenia

Three syndromes that are briefly illustrated in this chapter (paranoia, anorexia nervosa, and childhood schizophrenia) are probably related to schizophrenia.

The Choice of Treatment

In the presence of a schizophrenic disorder the therapist’s first duty is to choose the type of treatment. Each therapist must learn to counterbalance his own biases in order to evaluate properly each individual case.

The Concept of Schizophrenia

The concept of schizophrenia is useful and should be retained when applied to a particular psychological dysfunction of the human being that manifests itself in many varieties. The disability is real, and in almost all cases painful and harmful. The dysfunction can therefore be included in the medical model, provided this model is enlarged to comprehend those biological functions that are called psychological and are partially related to the social environment.

The Psychotherapeutic Approach to Schizophrenia

No psychiatrist can ignore individual psychotherapy of schizophrenia, nor can he escape practicing psychotherapy with schizophrenics even if he is inclined to do so.

Severe and Mild Depression

This is an original view of the causes and treatment of depression. While not denying the contribution of constitutional and biochemical factors, the authors focus on the psychodynamics and psychotherapy of this widespread disorder. The book is devoted to psychotherapy of all states and includes separate chapters on therapy for postpartum depression, and involuntary melancholia. (1049 pgs)

Establishment of Relatedness

Arieti describes psychotherapy of schizophrenic patients as he practiced it.

Rare, Unclassifiable, and Collective Psychiatric Syndromes

(38 pp.)

Ganser’s Syndrome

Capgras’ Syndrome

Autoscopic Syndrome

Cotard’s Syndrome

“Psychose Passionelle”

Munchausen’s Syndrome

Specific Solutions of Psychotic Mechanisms

Although psychodynamic interpretations are much better known, interpretations concerning mechanisms and forms are also important, especially at an early phase of treatment.

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