The purpose of this report was to give a stock-taking of publications concerning individual psychotherapy on analytic base with schizophrenic patients since 1957. However on behalf of the clearness it seemed to be necessary to recede somewhat.
Two periods have been examined, namely from about 1940-1960 and the period after 1960.
Apart from a subdivision according to country of origin, efforts were mede to differentiate the applied techniques.
Finally after studying the katamnestic subdivisions, it was clear that the use of psychofarmaca caused a big change, so that forms of individual therapy shift to the background. Meanwhile the attention for other forms of therapy is growing such as milieutherapy, familytherapy, grouptherapy, based on psychodynamic concepts.