ABSTRACT
By the late 1970s, interest across the United States in psychotherapeutic treatments for schizophrenia had waned. Institutionally, the academicprivate hospital partnerships that had provided the primary support for the psychotherapy of schizophrenia had undergone dramatic reorganization (Silver 2002). Psychotherapeutic approaches to schizophrenia were also undercut theoretically as its long-time legitimizing discourse, psychoanalysis, lost much of its standing as a valid form of science (Drake and Sederer 1986). However, at present, there is renewed interest in psychotherapy’s potential to help people confront the challenges that schizophrenia poses for the conduct of their lives (e.g. Fenton 2000; Holma and Aaltonen 1995, 1998; Sensky et al. 2000).
