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Abstract • I reviewed the substantial psychiatric literature on the technical strategies of intensive individual psychotherapy of schizophrenia. Numerous issues were covered: the nature of intensive psychotherapy and the nature of schizophrenia from the psychotherapist's point of view, elements of the treatment situation, general technical attitudes, general technical interventions (establishing a relationship, elucidating, tolerating, integrating, and working through), special technical interventions with specific symptoms and resistances, and a final brief discussion of mutative mechanisms. References 1. Freud S: Psychoanalytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia , in Strachey J (ed): Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . London, Hogarth Press, 1971, vol 12, pp 3-82. 2. Jung CG: The psychology of dementia praecox , in Brill AA (ed): Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs . 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Archives of General Psychiatry – American Medical Association
Published: Aug 1, 1983
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