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Morita Therapy for Schizophrenia
2 Department of Biological Psychiatry
3 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China
Keywords: cochrane / Morita therapy / schizophrenia
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As well as drug treatment, management of schizophrenia should also focus on wider social aspects of living in the community. There are many kinds of intervention strategies available involving both the patient and the wider family unit; Morita therapy is one of these. It is a systematic psychotherapy based on Eastern psychology, named in 1919 after Shoma Morita, a Japanese psychiatrist. Morita therapy involves a behavioral, structured program and tries to lead patients from preoccupation
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