Consensus on Early Intervention in Schizophrenia

Letter to the Editor Consensus on Early Intervention in Schizophrenia

The Research Strategies in Prodromal Schizophrenia meeting held in New York City on April 4-6, 2002, and organized by Barbara Cornblatt and her colleagues at Hillside Hospital, provided an opportunity to discuss our different perspectives on early intervention in psychosis and in conditions that resemble its prodrome. In light of the recent Schizophrenia Bulletin (October 2001) article by Warne...

Early Intervention in Schizophrenia

Early intervention in schizophrenia.

The management of schizophrenia may be characterised by two paradigms. The first approaches the schizophrenias as episodic relapsing disorders, where treatment is provided through both acute (crisis) care and to achieve prophylaxis. The second paradigm, sometimes arising from a failure of the first, is of "rehabilitation", involving amelioration of disabilities, occasionally within a framework ...

Early Intervention Programs For Schizophrenia

Early and sustained dynamic intervention in schizophrenia.

This paper is based on the Danish National Schizophrenia Project manual for psychodynamic individual psychotherapy with persons in states of schizophrenia. The methods for engaging with and treating a patient with schizophrenia in a supportive, psychodynamic way are described.