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Patients' Own Contributions to Long-Term Supportive Psychotherapy in Schizophrenic Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Sidsel Gilbert
Affiliation:
Psykiatrisk klinikk, Gravdal Hospital, Norway
Endre Ugelstad*
Affiliation:
Møllefaret 68 E, N-0750 Oslo, Norway
*
Correspondence

Abstract

The paper describes a study based on the Nordic multi-centre research project NIPS. In the Norwegian part, based on one-year screening and sampling of all new schizophrenic cases in a catchment area in Oslo, patients and therapists were interviewed after 2–3 years. Some patients seemed to have played a much more active part in establishing and breaking therapeutic contacts and in setting the terms for the relationship than is usually acknowledged. In the interviews at five-year follow-up, many patients produced viewpoints on their psychotherapeutic experiences that seem to be very important in relation to therapy.

Type
II. The Treatment of Schizophrenia
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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