This article is part of the supplement: International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour .

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The multifactorial approach: the psychotic patients

Athanassia Kakouri

Open Psychotherapy Centre, Athens, Greece

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from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour
Thessaloniki, Greece. 28 November – 2 December 2007

Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S5doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-S1-S5

Published:	17 April 2008

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We present some data from the treatment of psychotic patients through a multifactorial approach which has been developed during 25 years of experience, at the Open Psychotherapy Centre (O.P.C.), an open daily non-residential therapeutic community environment. The therapeutic approach of the O.P.C. is, mainly, Group - Analytic, in combination with Therapeutic Community, Psychodrama and Family Therapy principles. This multifactorial scheme facilitates on the one hand the therapist's role, by the creation of a therapist's group which gets envolved in the whole therapeutic process, while on the other hand it functions more effectively as it engages the psychotic patient as well as his/her family in a wide group therapeutic context, directly or indirectly.