Schizophrenia is the most serious mental health problem confronting our society, and it has long been the subject of theorizing, research and debate.
Conceptualizations and definitions of the insanity have gone through frequent changes, but the puzzle of schizophrenia has not been solve.
Freud originally proposed that the schizophrenic's withdrawal from the outer world and inability to sustain intimate relationships prohibited effective engagement in psychoanalysis. Nonetheless, many authors including the adlerian, Jungian, and
sullivanian, attempted to formulate techniques for individual psychotherapy with schizophrenic patients, but role of individual psychotherapy in the treatment of schizophrenic is more controvesial new then it has ever been.
Despite considerable advances in the neuro-sciences schizophrenia remains a clinical entity, which is recognized and diagnosed by observing and eliciting characteristic subjective experiences and overt behavioral functioning of the patient. The
phenomenology of schizophrenia is fluid and dynamic, changing and in flux both within an individual over time and across individuals. Hence, the task of future research for schizophrenia is to establish the harmony and combination of the
descriptive and
dynamic psychiatry in terms of human experience as open bio-psychosocial system.
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