Psychodynamic analysis of the schizophrenic consists of interpreting to the patient his past and present life. He is helped to become aware of his unconscious motivation and to acquire insight into the origin and development of the psychological components of his disorder.
Download Author: Arieti, Silvano, M.D.
Other Aspects of Psychotherapy
The treatment of the schizophrenic cannot consist only of the sessions, but an active participation in his life is necessary, as many authors have reported. The patient needs to feel that many events in his life are shared by the therapist.
Two Cases Treated with Intensive Psychotherapy
In this chapter Arieti reports the cases of two patients who have been treated with intensive and prolonged psychotherapy. The psychodynamics and the psychostructure of the symptomatology are interpreted, and the psychotherapeutic procedure is described in great detail.
Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenia
In spite of the limitations of the social treatment of chronic schizophrenia, there seems to be no doubt that good social conditions and a spirit of therapeutic community are helpful.
Drug Therapy
This chapter deals with the major aspects of drug therapy in reference to schizophrenia only. The criteria for selecting drug therapy over other types of treatment or in conjunction with psychotherapy are discussed in The Choice of Treatment.
Transcultural Studies of Schizophrenia
Transcultural psychiatry studies whatever pertains to the field of psychiatry in relation to cultural differences. The variable in these studies is the culture. We can study whether a given culture confers a special type of symptomatology to schizophrenia. We can attempt to determine whether a given culture enhances the occurrence of some syndromes, related to schizophrenia, but not generally included in the schizophrenic category.
The First, or Initial, Stage
We shall now study schizophrenia from the point of view of its progression, meaning progression toward regression.
The Prevention of Schizophrenia
This chapter discusses primary prevention aimed at lowering the incidence (or making less probable the onset) of psychiatric disorders.
1. Basic prevention, which aims at the elimination of those items that increase potentiality or increase the vulnerability for the disorder.
2. Longitudinal prevention, which aims at assisting the individual throughout his life to avoid those developments that will enhance actualization of schizophrenia.
3. Critical prevention, which aims at avoiding those factors or specific events that will precipitate an attack or onset of schizophrenia.
The Second, or Advanced, Stage
The second, or advanced, stage of schizophrenia is reached when the symptoms seem crystallized, to have assumed a fixed and definite form.
The Third, or Preterminal, Stage
I gave the name “preterminal” to a stage of schizophrenia that is rather difficult to delimit or to differentiate. This stage occurs generally from five to fifteen years after the beginning of the illness but may occur sooner or later. Particular attention will be given in this chapter to two habits that are the most common—the hoarding and the self-decorating habits.
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