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Providing Schizophrenic Patients with a Concept of Illness

An Essential Element of Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Lilo Süllwold  and
Jutta Herrlich
Lilo Süllwold*
Affiliation:
Zentrum der Psychiatrie des Klinikums der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Jutta Herrlich
Affiliation:
Zentrum der Psychiatrie des Klinikums der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
*
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One purpose of cognitive-behaviour therapy is to provide patients with a ‘psychological model’ of their illness; this would enable them to become aware of, and thereby gain insight into the ways that the symptoms and behavioural deviances they exhibit, and the circumstances of the onset of illness are actually related to their previous experience and social learning (for overview see Hawton et al, 1989). This concept provides a basis for gaining greater insight into special therapeutic interventions, and should help patients to develop their own lifetime methods of coping with problems.

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Coping
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 161 , Issue S18: Onset and Course of Schizophrenic Disorders: Dynamic Interactions between Relevant Factors , October 1992 , pp. 129 - 132
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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