This study reviews the psychoanalytic psychotherapy technique developed by Dr. Michael Robbins for the treatment of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Michael Robbins, in Massachusetts, USA, has developed a psychoanalytic psychotherapy technique for treating schizophrenic patients. The patients have been treated and all conform to the DSM-III-R (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd ed., rev.) symptom classification of schizophrenia, most often paranoid schizophrenia, and their ages range from late teens to their twenties. This study also evaluates the effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy guided by the PPCC (Psychodynamic Pentapointed [with 5 points] Cognitive Construct) Theory—a psychoanalytic model of functional psychoses that illustrates the progression of schizophrenic or schizoaffective patients toward mental health through long-term therapeutic intervention. Both Dr Robbins and this study found that psychoanalytic psychotherapy helpfully permitted the schizophrenic difficulties of their patients to be addressed in such a way as to promote learning, self-reflection and insight. Successfully treated patients emerge into the fullness of life with a range of achievements, including marriage, completion of a university course or coming off medication. The therapy proves highly beneficial for many and remains a valuable option from both clinical and humanitarian perspectives. It consists of the most useful elements of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Today’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy is based on many years of developing appropriate medication and effective psychological techniques by early pioneers. Evolving therapeutic techniques continue to expand the treatment and management of patients, including especially the potential great efficacy of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Author (s) Details
Gillian Steggles
Department of Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University
of Essex, UK.
Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/msraa/v4/5359
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