title: Establishing therapeutic contact with schizophrenics: a supervisory approach.
abstract: The beginning resident in psychiatry often finds schizophrenic inpatients to be noncompliant with the standard therapeutic approaches. This can present a significant supervisory challenge. An approach that views the schizophrenic as deficient of "good" objects and emphasizes the resident's capacity to form ordinary human relationships is discussed as a means of establishing therapeutic contact.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009769:Object Attachment; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000193:education; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology