The fear of understanding schizophrenia.

Empirically, psychotherapy with a competent therapist is the optimal, but rarely offered treatment, for schizophrenia.Medication or ECT produces less disturbing, lifelong cripples.Within 25 years one-third spontaneously recover completely (unless they stay on medication), and another third socially recover.Nazi Germany sterilized and annihilated patients without decreasing mental disorders in the next generation.Schizophrenia is a terror syndrome.The therapist must create a therapeutic alliance by creating hope and tolerating not understanding.Hallucinations are waking dreams.Delusions are transferences, defenses against pseudohomosexuality, family-specific meanings, or attempts to make sense out of strange experiences.