Successful Drug-Free Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia

by Revella Levin

Overview

Successful Drug-Free Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia offers 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815376255
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/18/2018
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Revella Levin, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist based in New York.

Table of Contents

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 Hopes Pathology: A Response to Salman Akhtar 15. The Excuses For "Supportive" rather than "Active" Psychotherapy 16. Toward a More Optimistic View of What Analysts Can Achieve 17. The Burned-Out Therapist 18. How to Decrease Your Chances of Getting Hurt or Killed When Working with a Schizophrenic Patient 19. Technique: Do’s and Don’ts 20. Side-Effects of Anti-Psychotic Drugs 21. Epilogue