Do You Think A Schizophrenic Patient Can Be Stabilized With Just Psychoanalysis

Reddit mods got jealous of my rizz

anecdotally, my parent was a practitioner who had a schizophrenic patient. he was very aligned with Buddhism; a lot of their sessions involved a meditation framework. i know this patient had some success, enough to live a semi-independent life of some renown. however, he was also independently wealthy, which improved his psychiatric access and general level of assisted functioning considerably.

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in the end, my parent felt those factors contributed as much or more to his stability as their work together did. my parent said insight was abundant but limited by the hallucinations, more intrinsically than they had hoped/believed when beginning the analysis.

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That’s how i answered the question in the Reddit forum r/psychoanalysis. The answer got complimentary engagement from a number of professional practitioners (as verified by Reddit anyway) and i felt like i contributed something to some minute corner of the conversation yesterday. A feeling thin on the ground in my day to day, i might add.

This morning, I opened Reddit to another quelling mod notification. “We have removed your post because it contains unpublished case material.”

YOU KNOW WHAT

I usually don’t care about Redditor egos, but I bristle at this meaningless display of envy, or malicious compliance, or whatever nasty little goblin of the psyche this tiny bowdlerization represents. Honestly, i should be thanking them- they’ve inspired me to set the answer free. So, Readers, consider yourselves duly equipped in the face of the unlikely, esoteric, but humanely interesting question, “Do you think a schizophrenic patient can be stabilized with just psychoanalysis?”

— fin, thanks, oy