[Analysis of conflict in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia]

Abstract

Considering schizophrenia as the result of the deficiency of ego functions and existing conflicts, the author proposes a psychotherapeutic method based on a constructed integral psychotherapeutic model which departs from the classical or orthodox psychoanalytical approach but unites the principle of the structuring and the principle of the analysis of the conflicts at hand. By the use of this psychotherapeutic method, in a sample of 20 schizophrenics, he achieved better and quicker therapeutic results regarding the increased ego capacity, fuller remissions, and significantly more successful functioning in reality than in the control group of the same size treated with neuroleptics alone. In this integral psychotherapeutic method the author sees possibilities for a scientific investigation of mechanisms and regularities in schizophrenic processes and phenomena and emphasizes the need for its development.