Is psychotherapy effective in schizophrenia?

Tell us how effective psychotherapy is in schizophrenia. Does it help change attitudes towards illness, towards oneself, towards interaction with people?

Maybe it helps. I am searching for a good psychologist in my area. I’d like to talk about my crazy symptoms

It helps me cope with the symptoms and can lessen them to an extent.

You have to find a good program. Took 7 years of psychotherapy to do anything for me.

I went trough one session.At the end,she said that psychotherapy must last and that you may have two years to come to something.I didn’t have that money.

It is supposed that,after one month of the first medical intervention,you return to your life,practice all aspects of your personal behavior as you were before sz occurrence,you do that under the effects of many problems created by the sz condition.

These problems causing the disorder to the higher mental processes which control the behavioral responses with the daily life events that you coexistence with in your environment,wherever you be faced with new problems without you have previous ideas about them

The psychotherapy learn you these problems and how to deal with them correctly for sake you success in your chosen to the right behavior responses with all daily life events

Alone, no. It is one part of the solution. Psychotherapy can be a very effective tool for modifying responses to thoughts that undermine mood stability, perceptions of others, and our behavioral responses to mood changes. However, management of schizophrenic symptoms may be more effective when psychotherapy is combined with appropriate medication to help smooth out the biological disruptions underlying that disorder.

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