Psychodynamics and psychotherapy of paranoid schizophrenia

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Gaetano Benedetti
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/1
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 145-162 File size 535 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2014-001007
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A lecture given by Gaetano Benedetti (1920-2013) on May 23, 1963, in Milan at a training course on "Psychotherapy of schizophrenic psychoses", organized by the "Milan Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy" (that later took the name of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane), is reprinted. Regarding the psychodynamics of paranoid schizophrenia, Benedetti discusses paranoid defenses in the following four aspects: concretization of psychic conflicts; denigration of others; dissociation of repressed impulses and their visualization in projected form; autism as a form of ego withdrawal; delusional expansion of the ego. Regarding the psychotherapeutic approach, the following three aspects are discussed: the primary relationship; patient-therapist realtionship; social work. At the end of the paper there is the transcription of the discussion held at the time among the participants (a total of 29 interventions).

Keywords: Psychodynamics of paranoid schizophrenia, psychotherapy of paranoid schizophrenia, psychoanalysis, defense mechanisms, psychodynamic therapy

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Gaetano Benedetti, Psicodinamica e psicoterapia della schizofrenia paranoide in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 1/2014, pp 145-162, DOI: 10.3280/PU2014-001007