1. Psychological therapies
Psychodynamic
psychoanalysis, social intervention, Milieu therapy.
Family Intervention
Cognitive therapy / CBT
Tarrier
Beck and Ellis

2. Psychodynamic
Freud and his famous couch

3. Psychodynamic Therapy
Methods include:
Dream analysis
Free association
Transference.
What are these? Will
they work with
schizophrenia?

4. Psychodynamic
It is agreed that the traditional psychoanalytic
therapies are not really that appropriate for treating
psychotic patients.
Fromm-Reichman (1948) and Rosin (1947) have
developed a form of modified psychotherapy to treat
schizophrenics but its effectiveness is also
questioned.
It has been found that patients who have been
treated using psychotherapy have needed longer
hospitalization, their symptoms are worse and
according to Drake & Sederer (1986) often refuse
treatment

5. Psychodynamic / Activity
Family intervention, milieu therapy and social skills
training are often used instead of psychotherapy.
Now go to the sources below and find out about
these three treatments
 Eysenck
 Lewis
 Cardwell
 AQA Nelson Thorne
You have 15 minutes.

6. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
Constant repetition
of negative
thoughts leads to
abnormality, this
leads to faulty
thinking and this
way of thinking
need to be changed

7. Cognitive
Even people who like me
 Nobody likes me occasionally get mad at
me
I’m smart, even if I do
 I’m a moron make mistakes now and
then
 I’m worthless I’m a good person
It’s not my fault that the
 My jokes are bad class has no sense of
humor
How does this work with
Schizophrenia?

8. CBT / Beck and Ellis
One form of CBT is based on the work of Beck and
Ellis, the aim of which is to change / challenge the
negative emotions of faulty cognitions
The therapist will ask the client to give him/her
evidence of the faulty cognitions and then tries to
help the client generate alternative maybe more
appropriate explanations.
This is made possible by placing the client in an
experimental situations that will test the validity of
the belief.

9. CBT / Beck and Ellis
This is seen with Chadwick who reported a case of a
person who believed he could make things happen
simply by thinking about them.
He was shown paused video recordings and asked to
say what would happen. In over 50 trials not one
prediction was correct and he was able to see that he
did not have the power to influence the events after
all.

10. CBT / Beck and Ellis
Kuipers et al (1997) states that this shows that this
sort of therapy is effective in reducing some of the
delusional symptoms of schizophrenia.