Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on August 9, 2006
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006 32(Supplement 1):i; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbl031
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Introduction to Psychotherapy of Schizophrenic Patients: Basis, Spectrum, Evidence, and Perspectives
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This themed issue of Schizophrenia Bulletin contains a range of invited articles—reviews, empirical reports, meta-analyses, position papers—on the topic of psychotherapy for schizophrenic patients. This comprehensive compilation of multiple facets of psychological and psychosocial treatments would not have been possible without an institution that has fostered these treatments in psychiatry for over 2 decades—the International Symposium on Schizophrenia Bern (ISSB). In 1985, Wolfgang Böker and Hans Dieter Brenner organized the first ISSB in Bern, Switzerland, at a time when psychotherapeutic and psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia was generally considered pretty much off-Broadway. This first meeting and the ones to follow provided a framework for the growing numbers of researchers and therapists who shared the conviction that pharmacotherapy was likely not the whole story in the treatment of schizophrenia.
The seventh International Symposium on Schizophrenia Bern (ISSB 2005) was the last ISSB chaired by Hans Dieter Brenner it was held in the
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