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Group therapy with schizophrenic patients in outpatient departments
Author(s) -
WodeHelgodt B.,
Berg G.,
Petterson U.,
Rydelius P.A.,
Trollehed H.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1988.tb06341.x
Subject(s) - rorschach test , medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , test (biology) , group psychotherapy , psychiatry , pediatrics , psychology , clinical psychology , paleontology , biology
Twelve schizophrenic patients were treated with neuroleptic drugs and psychoanalytically oriented group therapy during a period of 2 years. Twelve other patients, matched with regard to the state of their disease, sex, age, civil status and social situation, were given neuroleptic drugs and contact therapy during the same period. All patients were evaluated by the same test procedures. The Rorschach test, the Defence Mechanism Test (DMT), interviews and a self‐evaluation test, were performed before and after 2 years of treatment. The dates of discharge, number of days in hospital and neuroleptic drugs prescribed were recorded for all patients over a 2‐year period before, during and after treatment. Half of the patients improved, regardless of the treatment they received. No evaluation instrument used before the start of treatment could predict the patients who later improved. After 2 years of treatment, it was assessed that the patients who improved required a further period of insight therapy.