Successful Drug-Free Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia [Hardcover]

Successful Drug-Free Psychotherapy for Schizophreniaoffers a close examination of how to treat schizophrenic patients using psychotherapy rather than drugs, applying derivatives of psychodynamic principles in treating patients. The author provides real examples throughout of how therapists can resolve patients emotional conflicts with better outcomes than by resorting to drugs. She presents methods that allow patients to avoid the neurological damage and obesity that can often result from the use of anti-psychotic drugs. The practical techniques and advice this book offers enable therapists to resolve the chaos of schizophrenia using psychotherapy alone. Theoretically, this book can also be useful for work with depressives.

1. Introduction
2. Awakening the Schizophrenic Dreamer
3. The Difference Between Infantile Omnipotence vs. Grandiosity
4. Bathsheba: A 19 Year Recalcitrant Case of Schizophrenic Requiring 20 Months to get to the Neurotic Level
5. Black Hole Phenomena: Deficit or Defense? A Case Report
6. Addendum to Black Hole Phenomena: Deficit or Defense?
7. Faith, Paranoia, and Trust in the Psychoanalytic Relationship
8. John Rosen: Genius or Quack?: Historical Reflections of A Former Student
9. Five Errors in Freud's Structural Theory and Their Consequences
10. Communicating with the Schizophrenic Superego
11. Communicating with the Schizophrenic Superego Revisited: A New Technique
12. Identification with the Schizophrenic Superego
13. Out, damned spot! Out, I say ; or, Karl Abraham Revisited
14. Opposing Opinions as to Treatment of Wishes and Hopl³"