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Symbolic realization : a new method of psychotherapy applied to a case of schizophrenia

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: (Monograph series on schizophrenia: 2)New York International Universities Press Edition: 4th printing, 1970Description: 184p.; ill.; appendix; indexContent type:
  • text
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1 Introduction. 2 Anamnesis. 3 Classical psychoanalysis and first improvement. 4 Extension of the mental illness. 5 Acute period of the illness. 6 Period of decisive progress brought about by successive and systematized symbolic treatments. 7 Review of the progress made possible through the symbols. 8 Cure of the magic associations. 9 Re-education. 10 Personal testimony. 11 Review of the curative factors in Renee's case. 12 Conclusion
Abstract: '...Mrs. Sechehaye, equipped with her original method, brilliantly carried out this delicate task. The trend of her effective acgion stands out clearly from the very complex network of symptomatology. The essential goal was to replace futile delirious compensations by real symbolic satisfactions. A remarkable therapeutic success has crowned her patient efforts....'
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Translated from he French by Barbro Wursten and Helmut Wursten.

1 Introduction. 2 Anamnesis. 3 Classical psychoanalysis and first improvement. 4 Extension of the mental illness. 5 Acute period of the illness. 6 Period of decisive progress brought about by successive and systematized symbolic treatments. 7 Review of the progress made possible through the symbols. 8 Cure of the magic associations. 9 Re-education. 10 Personal testimony. 11 Review of the curative factors in Renee's case. 12 Conclusion

'...Mrs. Sechehaye, equipped with her original method, brilliantly carried out this delicate task. The trend of her effective acgion stands out clearly from the very complex network of symptomatology. The essential goal was to replace futile delirious compensations by real symbolic satisfactions. A remarkable therapeutic success has crowned her patient efforts....'

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