Conceptual Trends and Issues in the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia
Abstract
A review of the theoretical principles of exploratory, insight-oriented psychotherapy of schizophrenia shows three major trends: drive theory, object-relations theory, and ego-psychology. These trends follow the development of psychoanalytic theory and may relate to symptom clusters of the illness. Current considerations of countertransference follow similar lines.
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