Acting Out and Unusual Behavior in Schizophrenia

Silvano Arieti, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 28, Number 3

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1974.28.3.333

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Typical schizophrenic acting out, sometimes bizarre, is connected with special cognitive processes such as active concretization, delusional thinking, hallucinations. The patient is still capable of conceiving abstract ideation but cannot sustain it; it is too anxiety-provoking. Immediately it is transformed into concrete representations or activities. The patient must be made to realize that the therapist shares his anxiety and thereby diminishes his burden.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 28 • Number 3 • 1974, pp. 329–483

Pages: 333 - 342

PubMed: 4135373

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Published in print: 1974, pp. 329–483

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Silvano Arieti, M.D.^†

New York, N.Y.

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Presented at the Fourteenth Emil A. Gutheil Memorial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, New York City, November 4, 1973.

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Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, New York Medical College. Mailing address: 125 East 84 St., New York, N.Y. 10028.

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Acting Out and Unusual Behavior in Schizophrenia

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