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Schizophrenia: A contribution from existential psychiatry

Schizophrenia: A contribution from existential psychiatry SCHIZOPHRENIA: A CONTRIBUTION FROM EXISTENTIAL PSYCHIATRY HERBERT HOLT HE understanding of schizophrenia that they are not distorting reality, nor has been the goal of extensive ef- are they lying, but that they personally might lack access to the real facts since forts in research and in therapeutic practice over the past fifty years and they might not have central nervous more. Controversies still rage over the system access to undistorted data. factors which may or may not be re- Manfred Bleuler still considers schiz- sponsible for its onset. The position of ophrenia as a psychosis, a genuine this paper is that only now has the point mental disease. He describes the eva- been reached at which the relevance of luation of the diagnosis of schizophre- efforts to understand these disease syn- nia as relative to the experience of a mentally healthy person, meaning that a dromes, which are labeled schizophre- nia, can be demonstrated. The issue doctor living in a certain culture com- revolves particularly around the ques- pares the action and reaction of another person with his own action and reaction tion of origin -- whether psychological, sociological, genetic, or biochemical. In and, within this definite frame of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Schizophrenia: A contribution from existential psychiatry

Holt, Herbert
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 31 (2): 10 – Sep 1, 1971
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1971 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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10.1007/BF01872288
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SCHIZOPHRENIA: A CONTRIBUTION FROM EXISTENTIAL PSYCHIATRY HERBERT HOLT HE understanding of schizophrenia that they are not distorting reality, nor has been the goal of extensive ef- are they lying, but that they personally might lack access to the real facts since forts in research and in therapeutic practice over the past fifty years and they might not have central nervous more. Controversies still rage over the system access to undistorted data. factors which may or may not be re- Manfred Bleuler still considers schiz- sponsible for its onset. The position of ophrenia as a psychosis, a genuine this paper is that only now has the point mental disease. He describes the eva- been reached at which the relevance of luation of the diagnosis of schizophre- efforts to understand these disease syn- nia as relative to the experience of a mentally healthy person, meaning that a dromes, which are labeled schizophre- nia, can be demonstrated. The issue doctor living in a certain culture com- revolves particularly around the ques- pares the action and reaction of another person with his own action and reaction tion of origin -- whether psychological, sociological, genetic, or biochemical. In and, within this definite frame of

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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 1971

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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