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The Unconscious Transmission of Hidden Images and the Schizophrenic Process

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The puzzling phenomenon of the schizophrenic process and its treatment has been the focus of increasing investigative attention over the last half century. Yet despite the advance on two fronts, dynamic psychiatry and psychopharmacology, the schizophrenic patient still confronts the therapist with therapeutic disappointment. Although psychopharmacology has made the clinical management of these patients, both in and out of the hospital setting, considerably easier, the quality of improvement in their intrapersonal and interpersonal functioning, which dynamically oriented psychotherapy had hoped to achieve, leaves much to be desired.

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Paul, N.L. (1983). The Unconscious Transmission of Hidden Images and the Schizophrenic Process. In: Stierlin, H., Wynne, L.C., Wirsching, M. (eds) Psychosocial Intervention in Schizophrenia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68966-6_20

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