ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers medication and after any other form of therapy patients might receive group-analytic therapy can constitute a very effective therapeutic milieu for patients suffering from schizophrenia, especially if the latter is accompanied by a depression-like syndrome. Members with schizophrenia that is also accompanied by a depressive syndrome tend to cope with their transition to the depressive position in a auto-destructive way, and so can profit greatly from the qualities of the group-analytic group with good therapeutic prospects. A good enough therapy for the patient who suffers from schizophrenia does not consist of transforming the depression-like syndrome into a real depression, which can later be treated, that is, in achieving access to the depressive position. Patients with schizophrenia, particularly those who also develop symptoms of depression, despite their regression to a pre-narcissistic state without object, can be treated effectively in a group-analytic group composed of members of mixed psychopathology.
