Progress Toward a Resurgence and Remodeling of Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia: Editors’ Introduction to Special Issue of Clinical Case Studies

Abstract

This special issue of Clinical Case Studies focuses on recent developments in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia. Approaches such as these are needed to address the multiple rate-limiting factors for psychotherapy outcome in this population, such as poor insight, comorbid disorders, low motivation, cognitive impairments, and self and interpersonal disturbances. In this introductory article, each of the case studies is briefly reviewed, with the goals of: (a) noting how each therapeutic approach fills a gap in current practice, and (b) placing the focus of treatment within a larger context of relevant research on schizophrenia. Concluding comments note the implications of these multiple therapeutic developments for future psychological treatment of schizophrenia.