The Contributions of Family Treatment to the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia (1964) 1

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This chapter deals with various manifestations of positive feelings in the family background and in the family-therapy interaction, and with various countertransference phenomena. It brings out the fact that, in the family-therapy-of-schizophrenia session, the patient is so often successful in externalizing upon one or another of the others in the room such repressed self-images. Before turning to the countertransference the chapter presents the family aetiology of schizophrenia in the patient. The nature of the family therapy setting tends to evoke the unintegrated introjects which have thus far escaped detection in therapist's dyadic training analysis. Because of the dyadic context of the training analyses, therapists have been slow to recognize the importance in psycho-analysis and psychotherapy of the family frame of reference. An exploration of the family therapy of schizophrenia enriches and enlivens therapists' concept of the healthy family also. The chapter provides the clinical experiences of the author in the family-therapy-of-schizophrenia session.

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