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On the therapy of schizophrenia

On the therapy of schizophrenia SARA SHEINER I BELIEVE SCrlIZOI'rlRENIA to be a com- loathsome, he believes he is inhuman. plicated form of human existence, Seemingly strange goals bring him to beginning in childhood and evolving out a psychoanalyst. They are not so very of basic needs to maintain life and strange as that he must state them in- growth under unnatural conditions. The directly. He may say, "I have no friends, consequences and patterns of this kind I want you to tell me what to do"; or of growing are such that a person's "I smell bad"; or "The F.B.I. has micro- premises become almost entirely irra- phones in my house and I have heard tional, his feelings terrifying, his behavior that you have influence." bizarre and his style of living strikingly One man telephoned, asking for a different from that of others in his single consultation. Half an hour after society. The styles of life vary from the appointed time he rushed in, saying: person to person, but fall into broad "Here I am." A woman, at our first general groupings. Varying, als% are the meeting, glared furiously for forty min- ,degrees of apparent disorder. utes and then exploded with: "I hate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

On the therapy of schizophrenia

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 24 (2): 8 – Sep 1, 1964

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1964 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01872047
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Abstract

SARA SHEINER I BELIEVE SCrlIZOI'rlRENIA to be a com- loathsome, he believes he is inhuman. plicated form of human existence, Seemingly strange goals bring him to beginning in childhood and evolving out a psychoanalyst. They are not so very of basic needs to maintain life and strange as that he must state them in- growth under unnatural conditions. The directly. He may say, "I have no friends, consequences and patterns of this kind I want you to tell me what to do"; or of growing are such that a person's "I smell bad"; or "The F.B.I. has micro- premises become almost entirely irra- phones in my house and I have heard tional, his feelings terrifying, his behavior that you have influence." bizarre and his style of living strikingly One man telephoned, asking for a different from that of others in his single consultation. Half an hour after society. The styles of life vary from the appointed time he rushed in, saying: person to person, but fall into broad "Here I am." A woman, at our first general groupings. Varying, als% are the meeting, glared furiously for forty min- ,degrees of apparent disorder. utes and then exploded with: "I hate

Journal

The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 1964

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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