Talk Therapy to help Schizophrenics?
Article/Link: " Talk Therapy Lifts Severe Schizophrenics " b y Benedict Carey Published: Oct. 3, 2011 ; Accessed: Oct. 19, 2011 Summary: The linked article talks about how scientists have discovered a method for Schizophrenic patients to potentially improve their lives. Such patients are known to be isolated and withdrawn. Scientists think that talk therapy (originally invented to help depression) can help bring them out of this, making them social and interactive. In the study, the therapy helped motivate them as well as showed reduced symptoms. Though the researchers doubt that community therapists will be able to bring about similar levels of improvement as the experts who performed the tests. One example they use is of a woman who made coffee at the clinic as part of the therapy and eventually got involved with the community clinic going on to cook for them. When the patients receiving the talk therapy along with their usual medication were compared with patients on jus...