[Psychodynamic aspects of schizophrenic negativism in individual psychotherapy].

Abstract

This is a report of the individual psychotherapy of a schizophrenic woman who has been cured after years of treatment. The report deals mainly with psychodynamic problems such as resistance and negativism. It shows that only a common view of such phenomena, which includes the therapist as well as the patient and establishes a symmetry of experience, can lead to those processes of identification and counter-identification which ultimatively are helpful to both the patient and his therapist.