[Psychotherapy of psychopathic patients and patients with slowly progressing schizophrenia with defensive manifestations using a method of creative self-expression].

Summarized is a several years' experience of the out-patient psychotherapy of 312 psychopathologic patients of different clinical groups manifesting defensive disorders (psychasthenic, asthenic, defensive cycloid, schizoid, epileptoid, defensive hysterical psychopathic, anankastic personalities) and patients with defensiveness due to slowly progressing schizophrenia. The described technique allowed steady remissions and compensation in 80.1% of the cases. The results of the 2-5-year therapy included the psychotherapeutically raised creative inspiration and capacity of seriously and efficiently coping with the patients' own pathology and everyday life problems through the knowledge of life and human nature.