title: Conceptual trends and issues in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia.
abstract: A review of the theoretical principles of exploratory, insight-oriented psychotherapy of schizophrenia shows three major trends: drive theory, object-relations theory, and ego-psychology. These trends follow the development of psychoanalytic theory and may relate to symptom clusters of the illness. Current considerations of countertransference follow similar lines.
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003379:Countertransference; D004328:Drive; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D011385:Projection; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology