Psychotherapy of a schizophrenic patient in a large psychiatric hospital--therapeutic option or naive idealism
Branik, E.
Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie 44(12): 426-431
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0937-2032 PMID: 7846270 Document Number: 425331
The psychotherapy of a schizophrenic points, as it is depicted, at some characteristics of the interactions with these patients. In this context also the weight and the restrictions of the institutional framing conditions are indicated. Despite all still open questions, difficulties and limitations the author pleads for the furthering of psychotherapeutic efforts with psychotic patients, as in a considerable number of cases they mitigate their suffering, lead to a better understanding of the psychological aspects of the illness, which are important to the patient, and finally afford insight to the therapist into a sphere at the limit of human experience and, by this means, add to his fundamentally competence.