The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980

This volume is dedicated to Theodore Lidz and Ruth W. Lidz, as was the conference on the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia held on April 9 and 10, 1979, at which the materials here published were presented. This 1979 sym­ posium replicated in some respects the one held at Yale University thirty years earlier, at a time when psychotherapy with schizophrenic patients was viewed with much optimism and enthusiasm. Ruth and Ted Lidz contributed to this earlier symposium also, emphasizing in their paper the intense mother-patient bond as a therapeutic issue. Since then, considerable strides have been made in the treatment of schizophrenic patients. The introduction of psychopharmacologic agents, the development of family therapy, and more sophisticated methods in com­ munity-based care for such patients, all have had important impacts. Psychotherapy with schizophrenics as such has remained a rather limited practice, partly because it is difficult and demanding of therapists' time and personal investment, and partly because documenting its effectiveness on a statistically or epidemiologically valid plane has eluded us.

I Rationale for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.- 1 Psychotherapy in Schizophrenia: Historical Considerations.- 2 On the Central Task of Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic and Family Perspectives.- 3 Social and Family Factors in the Course of Schizophrenia: Toward an Interpersonal Problem-Solving Therapy for Schizophrenics and Their Families.- 4 Some Observations on the Nature and Value of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenic Patients.- 5 Discussion: Rationale for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.- 6 General Discussion.- II Research.- 7 Family Therapy During the Aftercare Treatment of Acute Schizophrenia.- 8 Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: Can We Make It Work?.- 9 The Nature of the Psychotic Experience and Its Implications for the Therapeutic Process.- 10 Problems Inherent in the Study of Psychotherapy of Psychoses: Conclusions from a Community Psychiatric Action Research Study.- 11 Insight and Self-Observation: Their Role in the Analysis of the Etiology of Illness.- 12 Discussion.- 13 General Discussion.- III The Practice of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics.- 14 Comments on the “Elements” of Schizophrenia, Psychotherapy, and the Schizophrenic Person.- 15 Comprehensive Psychosocial Treatment: Beyond Traditional Psychotherapy.- 16 All-or-None Phenomena in the Psychotherapy of Severe Disorders.- 17 Paradoxical Interventions: Leverage for Therapeutic Change in Individual and Family Systems.- 18 Discussion: The Practice of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics.- 19 General Discussion.- IV New Directions.- 20 The Developing Guidelines to the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.- 21 Medication and Psychotherapy in Outpatients Vulnerable to Psychosis.- 22 The Role for Psychodynamic Psychiatry in the Treatment of Schizophrenic Patients.- 23 The Quality of Outcome from Psychotherapy ofSchizophrenia.- 24 Toward Comprehensive Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia.- 25 Discussion: New Directions.- 26 General Discussion.