TO: Dr. Singh
FROM: Gary Freedman
DATE: February 18, 1997
RE: Technical Paper - Successful Outpatient Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenia - Aaron T. Beck, M.D.
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Enclosed for your general information is a technical paper by Aaron Beck, M.D., first published in 1952, titled: "Successful Outpatient Psychotherapy of a Chronic Schizophrenic with a Delusion Based on Borrowed Guilt."
An interesting feature of the case is that the patient, who suffered from a fixed delusional system of longstanding duration, was successfully treated using once-a-week psychotherapy alone (without medication). I share with the reported patient all of the characteristics deemed indicators of a favorable therapeutic outcome (p. 93).
The paper raises questions about my failure to progress in nearly four years of (twice-per-week) psychotherapy at GW--with respect to the limitations and capacities of both me and the therapists to whom I was assigned.
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Dr. Beck's paper can be accessed via the internet at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12983446
Who is Aaron Beck, MD?
http://www.med.upenn.edu/suicide/beck/research_schiz.html
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