title: The 1952-1953 Chestnut Lodge Seminar on Intuition and Empathy in the Treatment of Schizophrenia: Launching Alberta Szalita's Focus on Empathy.
abstract: This article presents background to, and the text of an organizational meeting of, a historic Chestnut Lodge seminar organized by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and including herself and Marvin Adland, Donald Burnham, Harold Searles, and Alberta Szalita. It forms the foundation for Szalita's interest in empathy, which then was the organizing concept of her paper given as the 18th Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Memorial Lecture. The transcript gives us an opportunity to observe these great contributors to our understanding of the psychodynamics of schizophrenia as they exchange ideas and reactions regarding the transcript of recorded sessions.
authors.forename: Ann-Louise S
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Silver
mesh_terms: D004645:Empathy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D019545:Intuition; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*