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Psychodynamics and psychotherapy of paranoid schizophrenia
Journal Title: PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE 
Author/s: Gaetano Benedetti 
Year:  2014 Issue: 1 Language: Italian 
Pages:  18 Pg. 145-162 FullText PDF:  535 KB
DOI:  10.3280/PU2014-001007
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A lecture given by Gaetano Benedetti (1920-2013) on May 23, 1963, in Milan at a training course on "Psychotherapy of schizophrenic psychoses", organized by the "Milan Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy" (that later took the name of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane), is reprinted. Regarding the psychodynamics of paranoid schizophrenia, Benedetti discusses paranoid defenses in the following four aspects: concretization of psychic conflicts; denigration of others; dissociation of repressed impulses and their visualization in projected form; autism as a form of ego withdrawal; delusional expansion of the ego. Regarding the psychotherapeutic approach, the following three aspects are discussed: the primary relationship; patient-therapist realtionship; social work. At the end of the paper there is the transcription of the discussion held at the time among the participants (a total of 29 interventions).
Keywords: Psychodynamics of paranoid schizophrenia, psychotherapy of paranoid schizophrenia, psychoanalysis, defense mechanisms, psychodynamic therapy

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Gaetano Benedetti, Psychodynamics and psychotherapy of paranoid schizophrenia in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 1/2014, pp. 145-162, DOI:10.3280/PU2014-001007

   

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