Treating the Chronic Psychotic: The Mediating Role of the Body

Presents the basics of a varied daily life and sums up a mode of intervention with a group of psychotic patients who have undergone long years of institutionalization with no lasting resolution. This mode of intervention was specifically physical. Outlines the unexpected results achieved in the most regressed inpatients or in those for whom delusional pathology was so invasive that it almost always undermined any valid contact.