Aggression, grief, and conflict in a patient with psychosis: an integration of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral perspectives.

摘要

Mr. V is a 56-year-old, single, heterosexual, unemployed, domiciled Caucasian male of mixed European descent. English is his first and only language. He has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia since early adulthood. Currently, he is receiving individual psychotherapy and psy-chopharmacology at a community mental health center, as well as rehabilitation at a day treatment program. Mr. V has been living in a group home since the early 1980s. At this time, Mr. Vs chief complaint is: "I am a paranoid schizophrenic. People don't like me, because they know my history of violence.