Psychotherapy of schizophrenia
Benedetti, G.
Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie Neurochirurgie und Psychiatrie 132(2): 207-213
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7273 PMID: 6622998 Document Number: 218522
Schizophrenic existence is the experience of an awful negativism, which comes from the depth of the Unconscious and appears at the surface of the conscience as the destruction of all positive symbols of life. Interpretations of psychodynamic mechanisms, of transference and countertransference, of dreams and fantasies must be rooted in the dominant therapeutic endeavour of creating with the remaining potentialities of the patient new positive symbols of the schizophrenic existence. The author's experience in the 30 years of his dealing with schizophrenic patients is here summarized.