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DSM-III schizophrenia and individual psychotherapy. 1982

T H McGlashan

DSM-III has redefined schizophrenia into five categories. Addressed here is the issue of how this nosology may be used to formulate or choose optimal psychotherapeutic treatment strategies. The two most common forms of individual psychotherapy for schizophrenic patients, i.e., supportive and investigative, are described and compared with respect to treatment goals and settings, and technical attitudes and strategies. The indications for choosing a specific technique are then elaborated for each of the DSM-III categories of schizophrenia. Factors independent of diagnosis but also relevant to psychotherapeutic treatment planning are discussed.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008370	Manuals as Topic	Works about presentation designed to give factual information or instructions.
D010551	Personality	Behavior-response patterns that characterize the individual.	Personalities
D011613	Psychotherapy	A generic term for the treatment of mental illness or emotional disturbances primarily by verbal or nonverbal communication.	Psychotherapies
D011618	Psychotic Disorders	Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)	Psychoses,Psychosis, Brief Reactive,Schizoaffective Disorder,Schizophreniform Disorders,Psychosis,Brief Reactive Psychoses,Brief Reactive Psychosis,Disorder, Psychotic,Disorder, Schizoaffective,Disorder, Schizophreniform,Disorders, Psychotic,Disorders, Schizoaffective,Disorders, Schizophreniform,Psychoses, Brief Reactive,Psychotic Disorder,Reactive Psychoses, Brief,Reactive Psychosis, Brief,Schizoaffective Disorders,Schizophreniform Disorder
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001291	Attitude of Health Personnel	Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.	Staff Attitude,Attitude, Staff,Attitudes, Staff,Health Personnel Attitude,Health Personnel Attitudes,Staff Attitudes
D012559	Schizophrenia	A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.	Dementia Praecox,Schizophrenic Disorders,Disorder, Schizophrenic,Disorders, Schizophrenic,Schizophrenias,Schizophrenic Disorder