The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia

I Rationale for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.- 1 Psychotherapy in Schizophrenia: Historical Considerations.- 2 On the Central Task of Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic and Family Perspectives.- 3 Social and Family Factors in the Course of Schizophrenia: Toward an Interpersonal Problem-Solving Therapy for Schizophrenics and Their Families.- 4 Some Observations on the Nature and Value of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenic Patients.- 5 Discussion: Rationale for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.- 6 General Discussion.- II Research.- 7 Family Therapy During the Aftercare Treatment of Acute Schizophrenia.- 8 Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: Can We Make It Work?.- 9 The Nature of the Psychotic Experience and Its Implications for the Therapeutic Process.- 10 Problems Inherent in the Study of Psychotherapy of Psychoses: Conclusions from a Community Psychiatric Action Research Study.- 11 Insight and Self-Observation: Their Role in the Analysis of the Etiology of Illness.- 12 Discussion.- 13 General Discussion.- III The Practice of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics.- 14 Comments on the "Elements" of Schizophrenia, Psychotherapy, and the Schizophrenic Person.- 15 Comprehensive Psychosocial Treatment: Beyond Traditional Psychotherapy.- 16 All-or-None Phenomena in the Psychotherapy of Severe Disorders.- 17 Paradoxical Interventions: Leverage for Therapeutic Change in Individual and Family Systems.- 18 Discussion: The Practice of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics.- 19 General Discussion.- IV New Directions.- 20 The Developing Guidelines to the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.- 21 Medication and Psychotherapy in Outpatients Vulnerable to Psychosis.- 22 The Role for Psychodynamic Psychiatry in the Treatment of Schizophrenic Patients.- 23 The Quality of Outcome from Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.- 24 Toward Comprehensive Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia.- 25 Discussion: New Directions.- 26 General Discussion.