Successful Drug-Free Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia

Author: Revella Levin

Publisher: Routledge

Paperback:
ISBN 10: 081537626X
ISBN 13: 978-0815376262

Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 0815376251
ISBN 13: 978-0815376255

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.